Workers’ welfare becomes first casualty of Pacific islands gold rush

More than 700 rugby union players have been exported to the western game but for many of them it has only become a fast track to miseryUtopia has never existed in professional rugby union and never will. If there was an easy answer to the issues of Pacific island player migration, gross economic inequality and systematic exploitation by agents and clubs, someone would have proposed it by now. But then you listen to the real-life stories of those in this unsustainable triangle and the outcome of Fiji’s visit to Twickenham on Saturday becomes a relative irrelevance.Last week Sireli Temo, a 30-ye…