Gama protest - Unions must get behind workers

The sight of workers protesting about pay or conditions in Dublin’s O’Connell Street is hardly a rare sight, although it is one that has become infrequent in recent years.

However, the one that occurred yesterday was extraordinary because it was a protest by almost 400 Turkish workers about a Turkish company.

The Gama construction company has made the headlines recently for all the wrong reasons and the Government has frozen its work permits.