Cheap labour lesson

IRISH workers are learning the hard lessons of EU enlargement. Thousands of ‘cheap’ eastern European labourers are being employed at breathtaking pace, while long-standing indigenous workers get the boot.

Cheap labour lesson
Thu, 15 Dec, 2005 - 00:00

Employers are shing no mercy whatsoever in displacing their entire workforce to gain extra profits.

Many people were happy with EU membership because of grant aid and muticulturalism.

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