Foreign workers living in ‘work camps’

MIGRANT workers are being forced to live in Third World-type ‘work camps’ on construction sites, a builders’ union claimed yesterday.

Foreign workers living in ‘work camps’

The Building and Allied Trades’ Union (BATU) demanded an investigation by the Health and Safety Authority into the allegedly deplorable living and working conditions of foreign workers on specific sites in Dublin county and city.

The union’s deputy general secretary Denis Farrell claimed: “Reports suggest these workers may be corralled off from any outside intervention, reminiscent of multinational factory camps in Third World countries.”

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