I sincerely hope that every worker will support these men in this justifiable dispute. The national minimum wage is a disgrace anyway let alone to be paid less.

Unbelieveable! Clearly there is a partnership of employers who will all be squirming around saying it's not their responsibility - DISGRACEFUL!

Good luck to them. Lets hope the employer is shamed and prosecuted. Maybe they think they can get away with it as its Pembrokeshire. Or has this been misreported?
I hope the facts will come out

The way these people are treated, the wages they are payed beggars belief. This is a NICEIC
site, rates are negotiated, where are the unions? Alas I work with a majority of people on this site who do not care about the Portuguese, they do not understand that unless we do something (Industrial action)then a few years down the line we will be working for a pittance ourselves. I hope the British workforce on Dragon and South Hook back these workers to the hilt - but I fear they will not !

This is the reason the big companies use employment agencies, so they can shift the blame and not have their own "ethics" troubled by the inconveniences of employing cheap labour. I've witnessed it myself many times while working overseas in the oil industry. In particular a gang of 4 Pakistani scaffolders that used to work 12 weeks on the rig and 4 weeks off, and on the 4 weeks off they were flown to Dubai to WORK!!! Not given time off. When the British workers raised it with management (Exxon Mobil) we were told that what the agency did with their people when they left the rig was not their, or our, business.

Then they used to expect us to take safety meetings seriously........

No wonder people hold big business fat cats and government legislation in contempt, what the point in having a national minimum wages when agencies can employ people and pay them whatever they like.

All the spin a few years ago about needing foreign labour to construct the LNG plant was nonsense, the reason they want to use foreign workers here is because they are cheap - there's nothing more to it than that.

Well said Mr Lewis.An example of supposed oil industry treatment of the "globalised" workforce is shown in George Clooney and Matt Damon film "Syriana" as portrayed in a Gulf state which contributes to a little more than mere worker's disaffection! No sign of a Union
to turn to.
Mind reports of some of China's Olympic construction workers'conditions of employment make the eyes water if true! Let's hope that's not the future "competitive labour" reality here if possibly got away with!