Unite, which represented hundreds of workers affected by Carillion’s collapse, has said the government ‘has lost the plot’ after it announced proposals to require outsourcers to produce a ‘living…Read more…
Battle for the Royal
Unite is stepping up its campaign to ensure that when work restarts on the Royal Liverpool Hospital, construction workers on the project are not exploited and unions are fully recognised. …Read more…
‘National disaster’
The collapse of Carillion in January left half constructed buildings and disrupted public services up and down the country, causing misery for thousands of workers and costing the taxpayers millions….Read more…
No more Carillions
Unite held a highly successful fringe meeting at Labour Party conference.
The meeting titled ‘Ending Bandit Capitalism – No More Carillions’, looked at why Carillion collapsed, examined how…Read more…
Liverpool Royal result
The government has announced it will step in to get the Royal Liverpool Hospital built following a delay in construction caused by the collapse of Carillion.
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Carillion’s £65m public shell-out shame
Taxpayers are set to fork out £65m to former Carillion workers who were made redundant following the company’s collapse in January, Unite has discovered. The union submitted a freedom of…Read more…
End ‘bandit capitalism’ call
Unite assistant general secretary Gail Cartmail called for justice following construction giant Carillion’s collapse in a speech at the Labour Party conference today (September 25). She…Read more…
‘Get a grip’
The government must step in and make sure construction on a half-built hospital that is delayed because of the Carillion disaster is completed, Unite said yesterday (September 24).
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Liverpool hospital safety scandal
Unite is urging thorough across the board checks on workplaces which have cladding after it was revealed the unfinished Royal Liverpool Hospital has been encased in flammable material which does not…Read more…
‘Not a one off’
Carillion’s spectacular fall from grace earlier this year, which wiped out thousands of jobs and has stalled public sector projects including hospitals, is one of the greatest corporate failures in…Read more…
‘Joke’ insolvency plans
Planned government action on dodgy bosses who use insolvency to avoid paying wages and pensions are a “joke”, Unite has said. Bosses who dissolve their companies to get out of paying workers…Read more…
Carillion ‘Ponzi scheme’
Unite called for a public inquiry into the collapse of Carillion and for it to cover the government’s approach to the awarding of contracts, following the Dispatches programme shown yesterday (August…Read more…
‘Rewards for failure’
Unite is calling for an urgent review of the fees, major accountancy firms can charge when a company falls into administration, after it was revealed today (August 16) that following Carillion’s…Read more…
‘Stop dithering’
Unite is calling on the government to ‘stop dithering’ as financing problems are set to further delay the completion of the Midland Metropolitan Hospital in Smethwick, which has been stalled…Read more…
‘Crass stupidity’
Unite has described the decision by the official receiver to make redundant 341 Carillion apprentices as an act of ‘crass stupidity’. The decision to make the apprentices redundant was made…Read more…
‘No social value’
Unite has called on the government to withdraw its decision to award the contract to privatise the Ministry of Defence (MoD) firefighters and defence workers, to troubled outsourcing company Capita,…Read more…
10 out of 10
Capita has been handed a contract for military fire and rescue services by the Ministry of Defence (MoD) despite a financial health assessment giving the highest level of risk to the outsourcing…Read more…
‘Wrong-headed’
Unite has described the announcement today (June 18) that troubled outsourcing giant Capita has been awarded the contract for the privatisation of Ministry of Defence (MoD) firefighters and defence…Read more…
‘Hollow promises’
Unite has lambasted the government’s handling of the collapse of Carillion five months after the firm’s implosion — 3,000 workers remain in limbo and vital public sector construction projects…Read more…
‘Hubris and greed’
Carillion’s “shyster” bosses bear responsibility for the outsourcing giant’s devastating collapse, but the Tories lacked “the decisiveness or bravery” to reign in the corporate excess that allowed…Read more…