Gama workers call on Government to help locate wages

GAMA employees yesterday demanded that the Government take up the issue of previously unknown Dutch bank accounts in workers’ names with the Dutch Government and Central Bank.

After a fifth day of unprecedented protest, hundreds of Gama workers from around the country yesterday marched to the Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment to hand in a letter demanding a meeting with Enterprise Minister Micheál Martin to “discuss how the Irish Government can ensure immediate access to our wages held in Finansbank”.

Under an agreement brokered by Gama, wages were paid into Finansbank before being automatically transferred to a third firm called Ryder Investments.