On the final day of the TUC Conference (Wednesday, September 11), Congress overwhelmingly passed an emergency motion demanding that HS2 takes immediate action to allow unions access to workers…Read more…
‘Business as normal’
This week (September 6) marks 600 days since the collapse of Carillion on January 15, 2018 when the construction and outsourcing giant was forced into compulsory liquidation with liabilities of £7bn…Read more…
‘Deeply sinister’
Unite has accused Merseyside police of being heavy handed with union activists protesting against working conditions at a construction site near Ellesmere Port.
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‘The abuse that keeps on taking’
Unite’s campaign against bogus self-employment extends through all regions and sectors. In June, the union’s Regional Officer for Construction in the ROI, Tom Fitzgerald, told a parliamentary…Read more…
Leading the way
The London Borough of Barking and Dagenham is the first council in the capital to throw its weight behind Unite’s pioneering Construction Charter. Construction firms planning to work on…Read more…
Quality training call
Unite has given a cautious welcome to a new initiative by the Construction industry Training board (CITB) designed to help ensure trainee bricklayers gain the necessary qualifications to work in the…Read more…
‘Constant sense of worthlessness’
Concluding the long-running blacklisting case, the High Court heard today (May 17) statements from individual workers describing how blacklisting ruined their lives. From family breakdown to…Read more…
‘Historic’ settlement
Unite has settled its current long running blacklisting case against the construction companies who systematically ruined the lives of their workers. As part of the overall settlement, which…Read more…
‘I almost cried with joy’
Campaigners are one step closer to overturning the wrongful convictions of 24 building workers arrested for trade union activity in the early 1970s.
The Shrewsbury 24 Campaign, supported and funded…Read more…
‘Remember the dead, flight for the living’
Unite members across the UK came together to mark International Worker’s Memorial Day (IWMD) at the weekend on Sunday, April 28, to pay tribute to those who have died in work. Unite…Read more…
‘I just thought he was running late’
Every year on April 28 on Workers Memorial Day, Unite joins workers across the world to pay tribute to those who have tragically died at work – many under unsafe working conditions. Today we…Read more…
‘Skeletons in the closet’?
Unite today (April 26) held a demonstration at the troubled HS2, Costain/Skanska Joint Venture (CSJV) at Euston, as concerns grow about the treatment of the workforce. The Unite demonstrators,…Read more…
Lessons must be learned
Crossrail failures must not be repeated on other major infrastructure projects
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Construction pay boost hailed
The Building and Allied Trades Joint Industrial Council (BATJIC) has agreed a one-year deal involving a 2.75 per cent pay rise to come into effect in June 2019. This is a result of the successful…Read more…
Unpaid overtime scandal
Unite has expressed its anger and dismay after commitments to ensure that workers on the HS2 project would receive the correct overtime rates were reneged on. Last month Unite exposed how…Read more…
‘Major boost’ for construction
In a major boost for construction projects in the West Midlands, Sandwell Council and Birmingham City Council will officially have signed a Unite Charter today (April 9) protecting construction…Read more…
‘Groundbreaking’ agreement
Dudley Council has become the latest local council in the West Midlands to use its influence to support local construction workers by signing up to Unite’s Construction Charter. Unite’s…Read more…
Living standards ‘cut to the bone’
Workers employed by both Mears and Mitie undertaking housing maintenance work for Crawley council are gearing up for industrial action after nearly a decade of pay cuts, which has seen their earnings…Read more…
Bandit capitalism strikes again
Outsourcing giant Interserve has gone into administration but will continue trading following the rejection of a controversial rescue package by its shareholders today (March 15). Coming a…Read more…
Interserve warning
The wellbeing of Interserve’s 45,000 UK workforce and it supply chain are being ignored, Unite warned (March 13) as the company totters on the brink of administration. Interserve has thousands…Read more…