Irish workers squeezed out for seeking fair pay

IT is common nowadays to hear remarks such as “Irish workers are lazy — they don’t want to do menial jobs like cleaning or stacking shelves in supermarkets”.

Such remarks are used by unscrupulous employers and employment agencies to justify hiring disproportionate numbers of non-Irish people in the lower-paid workforce.

Irish workers are now being squeezed out of the workforce on a daily basis. One reasons is that they demand a decent wage and proper terms of employment.