A campaign by Unite, the construction union, to ensure that workers building the Royal Liverpool hospital are treated fairly and without exploitation, received a significant boost at this weekend’s…Read more…
Fracking threat
Unite the union is calling for an immediate halt to fracking in Lancashire after it was revealed that there had been at least 19 tremors at the Quadrilla site since fracking restarted at the site a…Read more…
Fair treatment call
Unite, the UK construction union, has warned that the announcement today (October 26) that Laing O’Rourke has been appointed as the managing contractor to complete the troubled Royal Liverpool…Read more…
‘Brexit blot’
Brexit uncertainty led to the slowest pace of construction industry growth for six months in September, with Unite warning that the Tories’ lack of an industrial strategy will result in further…Read more…
‘Double whammy’
Unite is calling for an immediate crackdown on a loophole being operated by unscrupulous employment agencies and umbrella companies, which results in workers having the apprentice levy deducted from…Read more…
‘A complete disgrace’
As the TUC celebrates its 150th anniversary, the trade union movement looks back on its successes but also looks forward to the work that still needs to be done to ensure workers’ rights and…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…
‘Autumn of anarchy’?
Unite members at Ainscough, the UK’s premier mobile crane company, are preparing to begin balloting for industrial action in a dispute over pay. The 400 plus Unite member are furious that…Read more…
‘Significant decision’
Unite has reached an agreement which bans workers from being employed via exploitative umbrella companies on a major highways contract in the North West of England. The agreement to ban…Read more…
Backing construction workers
Crawley Council is giving its backing to a Unite Construction Charter that seeks to ensure that conditions for workers on construction projects under local authority control in Crawley meet the…Read more…
‘Exploited’
Unite has accused the government of washing its hands of thousands of workers who are experiencing the misery of being paid via an umbrella company. There has been a huge surge in the number…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…
Bogus self-employment rising
Research by Unite has revealed a fresh rise in bogus self-employment in the construction industry. A Freedom of Information request made by Unite to the HMRC revealed that 1.12 million…Read more…
Construction workers ‘short changed’
Members of Unite will be holding a series of protests tomorrow (July 24) over a ‘race to the bottom’ in pay, conditions and safety at the £800m energy to waste construction site at Parc Adfer in…Read more…
Construction training at risk
The Westminster Hall debate yesterday (July 17) on the plan to close the Construction Industry Training Board’s (CITB) head office in Bircham Newton, Norfolk shone ‘a powerful spotlight on a…Read more…
‘Scrap these plans’
Representatives of workers facing wholesale job cuts as a result of Construction Industry Training Board (CITB) ‘re-organisation plans’ and members of the local community will tomorrow (June 29)…Read more…
‘Highly alarming’
Unite has accused Westminster council and the Health and Safety Executive of inaction which could place workers lives in danger, after it notified both organisations of workers illegally living on a…Read more…
Umbrella firms sink to ‘new low’
A troubling new practice of deducted the government’s Apprenticeship Levy from workers’ wages – on top of taxes meant to be paid by employers – has been described as a “new low” for rip off umbrella…Read more…
‘Shot in the arm’
Unite has called for urgent government intervention in the construction industry after figures published by the ONS this week (June 11) revealed that the industry contracted by 3.4 per cent in the…Read more…
Umbrella companies win
Unite has secured the final victory in a long running legal dispute which strengthens the union’s hand in pursuing the rip off merchants including payroll companies, umbrella companies and employment…Read more…