Company accused of intimidating Polish workers

THE company at the heart of a migrant labour scandal at Dublin’s Port Tunnel was yesterday accused of intimidating Polish workers in an attempt to track down the sources of an Irish Examiner investigation into abuses of labour law.

Following this week's revelations in this newspaper, Format Industrial Construction Ltd has given written guarantees that over 40 Polish construction workers in the port tunnel will now be paid the same as Irish workers.

But SIPTU construction official Eric Fleming said a letter circulated to all employees yesterday morning amounted to nothing less than an attempt at intimidation.