Strikers put Brown's promise of 'British jobs' to the test

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Last Modified: 30 Jan 2009
By: Siobhan Kennedy

'British jobs for British workers' Gordon Brown promised last year. But the phrase looked increasingly meaningless as ministers admitted nothing could be done to favour them, and warned against any moves to protectionism.

In Lincolnshire, where the dispute started over foreign workers on a construction site, unions and contractors are to meet at the conciliation service Acas.


Krishnan Guru-Murthy spoke to the Minister for Employment Relations Pat McFadden. He put to him that given European law he would have to tell the strikers they were wrong.