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Originally Posted by Ramrod
My brother in law who is a decorator is getting undercut by immigrants (generally Polish, Romanian etc)
They are happy to work for less money and he has a kid and home to support here. Competing with them can be difficult  |
Self-employed I take it?
That is bad and is certainly, IMO, the worst part of the EU. I am generally for freedom of movement but it would be better if they had some sort of economic break whereby movement is restricted and eased up as the nation reaches economic parity with the rest of the bloc. We would probably need exceptions for workers based in another country but working temporary, moving within an existing company or skilled workers though.
My first initial post about this was lacking nuance in retrospect. I still think it's not as simple as wages going up if we Leave and that the primary driver of the decline of many manual labour jobs in the UK is global competition rather than EU workers but it would be foolish to casually dismiss the fact that some people do suffer.