Russia seeks Irish construction workers amidst massive $3 trillion boom

What a laugh Paddy work in Russia?

I would suspect, Tom Mo, that the offer made to Irish construction worker would be the British-style one. £140 a day, no other benefits, casual employment, the moment they don't need you any more, they sack you. The only plus side of that is, if there is plenty of work going, you will be able to walk out of one site in the morning and into another in the afternoon. Unions-what are they?

Before you go to Russia with your tool box, get some guarantees in writing. Not that the writing will mean much.

Goon lads. Go to Russia. Youy drank Canada Dry and pissed all over New York. Go to Russia but be sure you form a union over there. That should not be a problem. Insist on a good hourly wage, annuity payments, a pension fund, and vacation pay, like in New York. Form a local like 608, United Brotherhood of Carpenters and Joiners. But make sure that your Union delegates, shop stewards,and so forth are not crooks. Because in Russia they do not try them in a Court of Law and put them in jail for corruption. The Russians just shoot them and mix them up with the cement. Go for it lads.

The Poles, and other East Europeans, have a not too pleasant history with the Russians. Let's remember Gdansk, the Berlin Wall and Prague Summer. The Russians don't mind "outsourceing" their building projects, after all Peter the Great used lots of Italians to build St Petersburg---a very pretty city I might add.

"This new Global world represents a mass mobile workforce..the old rules no longer apply." OK, acmelvin, but let's hope you lose your job, not me.

The Russians have been coming to work in Ireland even back in the 70s & 80s, so now it's the other way around..not too far from home..hope everyone gets work that wants it. This new Global world represents a mass mobile workforce..the old rules no longer apply.

Why don't they get the Polish workers that left 15,000 unpaid for cars at Irish airports and went home!

Well, quite clearly WoundedKnee, the Irish will be doing the jobs that the Russians are too lazy to do. Plus they'll sleep 10 to a dacha and send all the money home to Ireland!

"The Russians should 'woo' all the Eastern Europeans who are presently occupying Ireland". Very well said, Eileen. It would be logical, if the Polish workers were the paragons of efficiency and honesty and all that good stuff that the Mass Immigrationist fanatics portray them as, that the Russians should be importing Poles. But they aren't--so maybe those Poles are not the great workhorses that the Mass Immigration fanatics have told us about? In any case, Eileen, Dublin is full of Russians. Why don't they go home and get a job, instead of hanging around the gyms of Dublin? Use their muscles for something productive instead of preening in front of the mirror!

The Russians should 'woo' all the Eastern Europeans who are presently occupying Ireland to work in Russia. Perhaps that would leave jobs open to Irish folks who need the work.

Are they sure about this? Russia generally imports construction workers from the 'stans and China. Even Polish workers would be cheaper the the Irish. Irish worker want London pay rates, and rightly so, but at the end of the day the Russians are going to get the cheapest men for the job, so I wouldn't get too excited. Mind you, if it's true, I might have a go myself. Hopefully the Irish-Americans will get a look-in on these projects as well.