European Court Judgement Could Derail the London Olympics Say Unite.
PR Newswire Europe, April, 2008
LONDON, April 3 /PRNewswire/ -- A judgement made today by the European Court of Justice (ECJ) could mean that London's Olympics will either be built on poverty wages or not at all as industrial unrest spreads, say Unite, the UK's largest trade union.
Unite is warning that the ECJ's decision that a Polish subcontractor operating in Germany can lawfully pay construction workers less than half the German construction industry's agreed wage could have a devastating affect on the building of London's Olympic infrastructure.
The UK's largest trade union say the ECJ's judgement could mean that foreign companies employing people in the UK can ignore employee's collective agreements and legally pay workers below agreed wage levels.
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