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Article: JOBS FOR BRITS.. THE NEXT BATTLEGROUND; EXCLUSIVE Days after wildcat strikes, new row brews over foreign labour Outrage as EU workers grab deals at pounds 350m power site.(News)
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- The People (London, England)
- Article date:
- February 8, 2009
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Byline: By RUSSELL MYERS
A BITTER new jobs-for-Brits battle has flared up over moves to ship in 650 foreign workers to help build THIS power station.
A third of employees on the pounds 350million project will be from European countries such as Poland, Lithuania and Portugal.
Unions and local workers are furious - only days after the end of widespread wildcat strikes over foreign labour.
They fear Brits are being snubbed for jobs at the site on the Isle of Grain, Kent, where ...