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Workers are protesting at the Olympic stadium site demanding that more British construction workers should be employed at the site.Workers are protesting at the Olympic stadium site demanding that more British construction workers should be employed at the site.
The members of the GMB and Unite unions are also calling for workers to be employed directly rather than through job agencies. The GMB and Unite union members are also calling for workers to be employed directly not through job agencies.
Up to 200 protesters are currently at the site in Stratford, east London.Up to 200 protesters are currently at the site in Stratford, east London.
Twelve coach loads of staff from sites across Yorkshire and North Lincolnshire are expected to attend. Workers from sites across Yorkshire and North Lincolnshire are due to attend. Olympics bosses said up to 70% of workers are British or Irish.
Workers from the Lindsey oil refinery in North Lincolnshire, which was the scene of protests earlier this year over the use of foreign workers, are also due to take part in the demonstration. Staff from the Lindsey oil refinery in North Lincolnshire, which was the scene of protests earlier this year over the use of foreign workers, are due to take part in the demonstration.
Keith Gibson, from the GMB union, said: "The protest is about the EU legislations regards to social dumping of European workers throughout Europe in different parts of the country. The government is spending millions of pounds on apprentices but what for? Where are they going to go? Phil Willis, Unite
"They are not obeying the paying conditions that the agreements will work under." Keith Gibson, from the GMB union, said: "The protest is about the EU legislation regards to social dumping of European workers throughout Europe in different parts of the country.
"They are not obeying the pay and conditions that the agreements will work under."
He said after the protest the workers would be going to lobby MPs in parliament, to discuss the Posted Workers Directive and "the blacklisting that is operating in our industry".
Phil Willis, from Unite, said if too many non-British workers were brought in to work on the Olympic site it would have a knock-on effect on future generations.
Limited time
"The more skilled labour they bring in it's going to deny our apprentices because they won't need them," he said.
"The government is spending millions of pounds on apprentices, but what for? Where are they going to go?"
The Olympic Delivery Authority has said it has been advertising jobs first in local job centres.
Members of the Rail, Maritime and Transport (RMT) union are also attending.
The EU Posted Workers Directive allows a European company to employ its own staff on a temporary project in another EU member state as long as it's for a limited time and the company abides by local working conditions.