How is this legal?? https://twitter.com/JConnelj2/status/1291439540259958786
Union is Siptu. https://www.irishexaminer.com/news/arid-40014026.html
"Earlier this week, the National Public Health Emergency Team said there were four outbreaks ongoing in meat plants, associated with 94 cases. This was before the discovery of a further 80 cases at Brady’s Ham plant in Co Kildare." https://www.irishtimes.com/news/health/meat-plants-q-a-the-lingering-coronavirus-threat-1.4323976
From 16 Jul 2020:
https://www.newstalk.com/news/easy-throw-assumptions-meat-factory-worker-defends-industry-wake-covid-19-1047362
https://www.newstalk.com/news/easy-throw-assumptions-meat-factory-worker-defends-industry-wake-covid-19-1047362
Can't find anything on wages but from Unite (30 June 2020):
https://unitetheunion.org/news-events/news/2020/june/link-between-migrant-worker-exploitation-and-covid-19-meat-processing-outbreaks-must-be-addressed/
https://unitetheunion.org/news-events/news/2020/june/link-between-migrant-worker-exploitation-and-covid-19-meat-processing-outbreaks-must-be-addressed/
Just this from 2005, €220 for 32 hour week:
https://magill.ie/archive/new-beginning-irish-beef-old-story-migrant-workers
https://magill.ie/archive/new-beginning-irish-beef-old-story-migrant-workers
Last bit, behind a subscription wall about the original post:
https://www.farmersjournal.ie/meat-factory-recruiter-told-to-pay-irish-tax-contributions-561189
https://www.farmersjournal.ie/meat-factory-recruiter-told-to-pay-irish-tax-contributions-561189