Worker exploitation will influence vote

A recent report headlined ‘Firm hires migrant workers to keep manners on Paddies’ (July 3) said that a bin collection firm in Carrick-on-Suir that hired workers from eastern Europe had been hit by a strike by 27 Irish workers, some of whom were told to work longer hours and take a 49% pay cut – or walk.

It was the Nice Treaty and the Fianna Fáil-led government that facilitated large-scale economic migration from eastern Europe after May 2004.

Foreign workers themselves are being exploited through work conditions that are below the norm for Ireland.