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Tuesday May 10, 2005 13:08
by Turkish Workers’ Action Group
Turkish GAMA workers to protest at Commission for Energy Regulation –
Today, Tuesday 10th May, at 2.15pm
Plaza House, Belgard Road, Tallaght
Turkish GAMA workers currently on strike are to protest today at 2.15pm at the Commission for Energy Regulation (CER) Office. They are demanding that the CER revokes the license to generate electricity granted to Tynagh Energy (80% owned by GAMA) unless it and GAMA immediately pay the workers all the money owed.
Turkish construction company, GAMA forced its employees to work over 80 hours per weeks and at wages as low as €2.20 per hour. The workers are now in their fifth week of strike action, and a huge amount of money is still owed to them.
The CER should make clear its opposition to these slave wages by revoking the license immediately, unless the money owed is now paid.
Apart from the massive exploitation of workers, if they are allowed to benefit from such intense exploitation, Tynagh Energy would have a massive unfair competitive edge over other generators and suppliers of electricity in the Irish market.
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http://www.cer.ie/cerdocs/cer04052.pdf
The Tynagh Energy Consortium is comprised of:
Gama Construction
Gama is a leading international general contracting company
established in 1959. It has extensive international experience
in turnkey construction of power plants and industrial facili-
ties and has completed over 150 large scale projects world-
wide. Recent Gama energy-related projects in Ireland include
the construction of the 343MW Huntstown CCGT
gas-fired plant for Viridian, the 150MW West Offaly Power
Plant and the 100MW Lough Ree Power Plant
→ 'Christ Kennicott Water Technology Ltd ( http://www.christwater.com/ ) are continuing to build on their success in Ireland after winning a contract to supply both the water and the wastewater treatment plant for the new 400MW CCGT power plant currently being built by GE/GAMA POWER SYSTEMS in Tynagh, Co. Galway, Ireland.'
http://www.the-eic.com/News/Archive/2005/Apr/Article378.htm
→ Tynagh Energy's Shareholders
http://www.tynaghenergy.ie/about.asp
The current shareholders of Tynagh Energy are:
- Gama Construction Ireland Limited (80%); and
- Mountside Properties Limited (20%)
[....]
Gama’s Irish activities include the construction of the 343 MW Huntstown power plant in County Dublin (civils sub-contractor to Siemens AG), and sub-contracting work on two peat-fired power plants at Lanesboro and Shannonbridge.
Gama is also involved in the construction of residential housing schemes in Dublin, the Ballincollig Bypass (recently completed 1 year ahead of target) and the Ennis Bypass currently under construction.
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