Yet EU workers came in droves, happy to accept this dastardly treatment. Why? Well, perhaps it was because they were making triple the money they could make at home - often more.
This is the EU in action, driven by the lobbyists of the "global" corporations as another way to secure cheap labour, where they want it, which enables huge profits. This is a main reason for the EU to encourage smaller, poorer, eastern European countries into this club, even though the Euro does not suit most of them at all, economically. The EU "pillar" of free movement of people and services is not much about benefit to individuals, in fact it has damaged many of them. especially in the UK.
What happens when they run out of new sources of cheap workers, I wonder???