There is no reason for any Bricklayer in this contry to be out of work.I find it hard to belive that a company would sack a person they had employed for 18 years .If he had worked for them for this length of time there are employment legislations in place that would not allow them to do so...The person in question (and the reason I would welcome it) is on a right result if he were to take this company to an industrial tribunal.
Regarding the influx of construction workers from Poland in general my response is unfortunatly we need them. With the current building programme in the south east especially there are not enough decent home grown tradesmen to go round..The Polish workers should not be confused with other eastern european immigrants as all the ones I have worked with are here to earn their money and go home.(the same as I did in 1979-81 when I worked in Germany).
What I find most annoying is that this is a problem that needn't exist.We have not trained enough of our young people.What has happened to the traditional apprenticships? We have thousands of kids walking the streets making a public nusiance of themselves,the govenments answer seems to be to keep them in school untill they are 18 but what about the the kids that are not accademic,,,come on get them proper apprenticships ,proper skills,proper jobs. Fill the job vacancies with our own people and the immigrants won't come,or at least the govenment won't have any excuse to let them in.
We are currently looking for bricklayers. must be fast and neat,work hard and turn up every day........would prefer to employ brits but havn't had one person walk on to site in the first 2 weeks of the job. The Polish bricklayer that works for us has said he can bring as many as we wan't. The main contractor is screaming because the job falling behind ,
What would you do ?
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