Migrant labour 'vital to region's economy / Yorkshire Post, 24 Feb 2007
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Paul Jeeves
"YORKSHIRE is now so reliant on tens of thousands of eastern European workers that the region's economy would be plunged into crisis without them, a damning study has revealed.
The new, cheap and readily available workforce has become so vital to scores of the region's companies that they could be forced out of business without them, according to the report by leading academics and Government advisers, obtained by the Yorkshire Post.But concerns are growing that people from nations including Poland, Lithuania and other Baltic states will look to alternative European destinations to find work unless the Government intervenes to prevent a growing problem of exploitation."