Trade unions are planning protests at Premier League matches over the May Day weekend in protest against Qatar’s continued exploitation of migrant workers.

Fifa controversially handed Qatar the 2022 World Cup despite deadly conditions for workers.

Last month football’s governing body had the choice to move the World Cup to a different country but instead chose to move the dates of the tournament, once again ignoring the two million migrant workers who are being forced to work six days a week in temperatures that reach 55°C.

A senior union source told a national newspaper yesterday that staff will hold anti-Qatar slogans at matches and will be looking for help from supporters to raise awareness.

The highest profile game that weekend is Tottenham v Manchester City.

The source said: “The Qataris are thumbing their noses at us and Fifa are turning a blind eye.

“We are drawing up a plan of action and upping the ante.

“We’re looking at protests and football is the one that’s in the public eye, which the Qataris hate.

“We’re hoping fans may help us. Nothing is being ruled in, nothing is being ruled out.”

The campaign is being led by the Building and Wood

Worker’s International (BWI), a Swiss-based international union. Any action by British unions will be led by GMB, Unite and Ucatt, who will be also targeting sponsors such as Adidas and Visa.

A BWI letter called for British organisations to “organise stadium actions, if possible with football fans clubs, during a match in your country.

GMB international officer Bert Schouwenburg said: “In the face of intransigence from Qatar and indifference from Fifa, trade unions are left with little alternative but to up the ante in the campaign to stop the appalling treatment of migrant workers in the Gulf dictatorship.

“The BWI are encouraging their affiliates around the world to consider what action they can take.

“In response to the specific call by BWI for action around the May Day weekend we have not ruled out some form of high-profile protest in England but nothing has yet been decided. Whatever we do, the slaughter in Qatar must cease and without workers’ rights being respected, there can be no World Cup.”

A report in December revealed Nepalese migrants building the stadiums for the 2022 World Cup died at a rate of one every two days in 2014 and by time the tournament kicks off 4,000 workers will have died building stadiums.