Facing the growing immigration of Polish workers in Ireland, the Polish trade union Solidarnosc and its Irish counterpart SIPTU signed, on November 20th of this year, an agreement of cooperation for which the main objective is to fight social dumping and improve the working conditions of immigrant workers. (Ref 061173)
The agreement is the culmination of a series of initiatives involving both trade unions. Already in 2005, further to the massive immigration of Polish workers in Ireland, the president of Solidarnosc, Janusz Sniadek, had called these workers to enroll in the Irish trade union. In December 2005, SIPTU and Solidarnosc had drawn up a common plan concerning the information of immigrant workers on their rights.
The agreement signed between both trade union organizations stresses the necessity to have
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