SHIPYARD workers on the Tyne are to meet Government officials, to discuss a row over Romanians being used as "cheap labour" - 350 miles away.
The 76 foreign workers were brought in to carry out steel fabrication work on the multi-million pound refit of three vessels at the A&P yard, in Southampton.
The move has angered the company's workers at other yards, including Walls-end, where redundancies have whittled down the workforce to 200. They say they would normally be offered such contracts, and there are thousands of unemployed workers in the North who would have been capable of carrying out the contract.
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