Staythorpe - the bitter reality of the real non-communal EU at work!
The local press has this sickening report, linked here:
Kevin Gough, 53, a married father-of-two from Newark has applied three times for work as a pipe welder at Staythorpe since he was made redundant last November.
He said he has never had an interview or a test. Mr Gough said: "It's a paper exercise.
"All I have received is a standard letter back saying thank-you for the CV, they (Alstom) have passed it on to the relevant companies and they still want to recruit local labour as well as from far afield.
"Our problem is not with our European colleagues. What we want is a level playing field where we are being given an opportunity but British workers are being excluded."
Andrew Briggs-Price, 53, also a pipe welder from Newark, said: "It makes me feel gutted. I have to live on £60-a-week from the dole, support my family on that and look for a job. It's costing money to have us on the dole and we want to work. We are screaming out for it."
Labels: EU Posted Workers Directive
posted by Martin at 8:44 AM
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Gordon Brown has nailed his colours to the mast already several times. He has told the country that globalisation of labour is a fundamental pillar of Labour's policy, and there is no way he'll engage in "protectionist" policies. He misses the point however. He is failing to make the distinction, that British workers are entitled to receive exactly the same chance of a job as any other EU national, and that foreign companies are denying them their right to be equally considered for employment.
The Tories are following the same line incidentally, and they too hang on to the same failed policies of a single market, globalised economy. free markets for corporations, the bailout to bankers, and nothing for the British unemployed except "get on your bikes to find a job in Europe". This is the message we hear from our political "representatives".
I think it's about to change, unless our representatives change. I think the British unemployed, destined to grow to 3 million and beyond, are going to be asking some serious questions about where they are to go to get their equal rights when neither government or the opposition are listening.
Something has to give in this equation, and if I was a betting man then I'd be betting on the side of the 3 million or more unemployed, which will reach boiling point at some stage until the whole political system is split wide open.
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