Tony Woodley on the Gordon Brown speech on immigration
12th November 2009
Tony Woodley, joint general secretary, of Unite said: "The moves
announced today to ensure that local skills and talents must be
nurtured before employers can dash for an alternative workforce
will be particularly welcomed.
"Workers are not expressing a fear of foreigners, but an anger
that employers are exploiting overseas workers to undercut wages
and drive down standards.
“Unite has always firmly believed that workers, wherever they
hail from, must be treated equally in the law and at the workplace.
Equal treatment law is the best way to stop bad employers looking
to hire a cheap and fearful workforce, which is why we will
continue to press the government to act to clamp down the abuse of
agency workers without delay."
ENDS
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