Those few who are raising slogans like ‘British jobs for British workers’ need to sort their arguments out, because they’re wrong and they’re misleading, and they seriously damage the prospects for solidarity. What’s more, they got that slogan from Gordon Brown, and that itself should warn them that there’s something wrong with it.
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This is about the way Italian workers, who aren’t responsible for this problem, are being used in an attempt to break trade union organisation among construction workers in the UK, and in particular to break the terms of previous agreements. If it was about anything else, why would the employers exclude them from the jobs in advance? Why shouldn’t the jobs be open to anyone?
Guardian: Oil Refinery Dispute
In a funny way this is good for me at the mo because I’m doing a new play about foreign migrants and the press are hovering around us for material.
People should give being an economic migrant a go, I tried it in Poland and it’s hard bloody work.
Daniel Hoffmann-Gill’s last blog post..Poles Apart: End of the First Week of Rehearsal
I don’t deny that at it’s hard at all. In any respect.
I also thought that it was illegal under european law to deny the opportunity (at least) to some one from an EU countyr the chance to apply for a job.