Gordon Brown today condemned wildcat strikes as "indefensible" amid efforts to prevent the row over foreign labour escalating into mass industrial action.
The prime minister said he recognised that people were worried about jobs being taken by workers from other countries, but stressed that the UK was part of a single European market.
In an interview for the BBC's Politics Show, he sought to explain his pledge of "British jobs for British workers", insisting he had only meant people would be given the skills to compete against other nationalities.
Asked for his message to those thinking of staging sympathy strikes tomorrow, Brown said: "That that's not the right thing to do and it's not defensible."
Officials from government departments, unions, employers and the mediation service Acas have been in discussions after a series of wildcat strikes across the country on Friday.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/politics/2009/feb/01/gordon-brown-jobs-foreign-workersIt's getting kind of hard to tell which government is going down next. I thought it was Greece but I'm beginning to think it's the UK. Sympathy strikes could shut down the whole country. Stay tuned.