No Irish Need Apply - Polish Builders get their own back

The irish are not going ot move to poland to make less money.

This article is nothing but a tabloid trash. I'm really surprised that serious newspaper printed this sh*t.

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Work in Poland ? IRISH NEED NOT APPLY . . .

westernpeople.com/news/story/?trs=eycwojsnid

Does anybody know where I can send my application form to? I also have a black friend and a dog? :)

I can understand what goes around comes around, but technically its not the Irish people or Irish builders fault, its the construction employers or whatever thier called.

True. If the polish housing boom really does take off I think requirements might over look retribution.

EVERY THING IS COOL HERE
BUT I THINK ENGLAND IS NOT GOING
TO WELL WITH IT AT THE MOMENT!

The writer of the article in the Independent, Brian McDonald, does himself no favours by making such an outlandish claim without reference to any source, no matter how vague. Then again, maybe he is in good company, as his employers have destroyed the historical trust that Irish readers used to place in the two Independent publications.

Remember, this is the newspaper that employed Mary Ellen Synon.
Serious newspaper? Hardly!

Why did you change your accent ? was it because you did not want the English to know that you were Irish ?

I am an Irish man living in Wroclaw, who worked on building sites in Dublin during the Celtic Tiger....

Polish workers woke us up! we missed work every monday until you guys came, yes you were needed and I think youse are great workers: Contractors were also woke up during this boom: safety became recognised as very poor on Irish building sites, but only after a lot of lives were lost due to cheap skate Contractors. year after year the fatalaties got worse and worse until a march through Dublin opened up some very crooked eyes!

Things got better and better, as pressure was enforced in ways that changed laws for ever: a contractor can now get imprisoned for life if he does not follow safety properly.

Please, don't go closing your gates on the normal joe soap because greedy culchie contractors got up your nose, we are all in the same boat - the working class!

wishful thinking bro,
things are far less pretty than you would be led to believe I'm afraid.

was that for me????

I am back and forward to Dublin from WRO, every 3 weeks, and every single time I go home like last night, my friends are asking: is it true polish builders don't want Irish workers??/

My answer is still the same: one polish contractor fell out with an Irish main Contractor, this guy is from OPOLE, A Small City in Poland, WHERE THE INCIDENT DID ACTUALLY OCCUR; he put up a sign saying: NO IRISH MAY APPLY!

Everyone, even radio station got a hold of this, it's flying around Ireland like wild fire why??? because there is 300,000 poles doing well here and the IRISH feel this is unfair and are very angry!

So....again I keep saying it: one man is pissed off with another, yes he put up this sign, but it dosin't mean the whole of Ireland is not welcome in Poland! not that the building game is appealing to such builders, yet, as the wage is peanuts!!!!

well its a bit ignorant to begin with.

It wasnt Irish WORKERS whol exploited the polish, it was the EMPLOYERS!

In fact many (tho not all) polish workers have themselves to blame. They went onto sites and UNDERCUT irish workers to get their jobs, then boo hoo , surprise surprise when their bosses took full advantage of their selfish 'im alright jack' attitudes to exploit them in return.

They showed NO respect to Irish unions or workers but then somehow expected that they would be treated fairly without union protection?

Yer havin a laff as the brits wud say.

THe funniest part was when LATVIAN workers then went onto sites an undercut the polish workers, a took their jobs, what goes around comes around!