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Unions call for end to Irish docks ‘carnage’

The International Transport Workers’ Federation (ITF) and the Irish dock workers union SIPTU have called for better protection for workers in Ireland’s ports after 50-year-old truck driver Nick Collier was killed in North Docks at Dublin Port on 14 August. The unions said it was the seventh death of a worker in an Irish port in the past two years.Published reports indicate a refrigeration unit was being loaded onto the ... [+]

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