A Million Jobs Taken By Non EU Workers

A million workers from outside the EU have taken jobs in Britain since Labour came to power, according to official analysis.
Although they have no automatic right to work in this country, they have filled almost half of all the jobs created since 1997.
The scale of employment among non-EU migrants was revealed to MPs by the Office for National Statistics.
Gordon Brown, who earlier this year pledged 'British jobs for British workers', has faced difficulties in recent months with growing resentment over jobs going to competitors from EU countries.
But the latest breakdown shows that since 1997 workers from outside Europe have taken jobs at nearly double the rate of EU workers – including Poles and other Eastern Europeans given the right to work in Britain in 2004.
The figures were published by Karen Dunnell, the National Statistician and ONS chief whose determination to make the latest information on immigration and employment available has brought a wave of criticism from ministers.
They show that between December 1997 and last year the number of jobs held by workers born outside the country went up by 1,759,000, of which 1,084,000 were filled by people born outside Europe.

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Foreign Workers Win Olympic Jobs: 1 in 3 Employed at Key 2012 Site is From Abroad

Nearly a third of workers at the Olympic site in London are foreigners, official figures reveal.

They show that just 63 per cent of the 3,315 workers on the Olympic Park are British and eight per cent are Irish. The remaining 29 per cent are foreign workers, half of whom hail from non-EU countries.

The Olympic Delivery Authority has pledged to employ local people, creating a skills legacy for East London in line with Gordon Brown's promise of 'British jobs for British workers'.

But yesterday contractors on the £9.3billion project said that the sudden downturn meant they were having to move existing workers to the 2012 site to prevent redundancies, and so had been unable to hire local workers.

But the Mail has learnt that Olympic jobs offering salaries of up to £65,000 are currently being advertised abroad to foreign workers.

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National March Against Foreign Workers

THE business secretary, Lord Mandelson, issued a stark warning against moves to protect British jobs from foreign workers yesterday as unions planned a national protest march.
With the spectre of disruption to fuel and power supplies, Mandelson insisted that companies must continue to be allowed to employ staff from overseas. In a blunt message to workers demanding “British jobs for British workers”, he said: “Protectionism would be a sure-fire way of turning recession into depression.”

His tough stance was echoed by Gordon Brown, who condemned plans for further wild-cat strikes tomorrow. “That’s not the right thing to do and it’s not defensible,” he said.
While ministers held emergency meetings with union leaders to try to stem the flow of unofficial protests, militant shop stewards were planning their next moves.

Among the plans which will alarm Downing Street are a national march against foreign workers in London, a national boycott of filling stations owned by Total, the French oil company, and a blockade at a Kent power station

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