More than 10,000 labor union members protested Friday in Ireland's capital and other cities over shipping company Irish Ferries' plan to replace its workers with low-paid Eastern European immigrants in the country's most bitter industrial showdown in decades. The new workers, chiefly from Latvia, are willing to work for 3.60 euros ($4.25) an hour, less than half of Ireland's minimum wage.
See "Irish Workers Protest Immigrant Hires", Associated Press, The New York Times, December 8, 2005