Fresh strike dates were announced by Unite today (February 20), in a further escalation of the dispute with Essex based Tarmac Building Products Ltd, over the creation of a two tier workforce. …Read more…
Manchester Mears win
Unite members employed by Mears in Manchester are celebrating victory after they reached agreement to end their marathon strike action in a dispute over pay parity. The 180 members, who were…Read more…
Skills ‘black hole’
News that the Construction Industry Training Board (CITB) has confirmed it will end all directing training by 2020, will create a skills black hole and strip the industry of the capability to…Read more…
Skills crisis
Unite has renewed its demands for radical action to be taken to tackle the deepening skills crisis facing the construction industry. Unite made its call following the publication of this…Read more…
End ‘race to the bottom’ call
Unite has warned that a rogue construction project in Wales is undermining pay, conditions and safety and ‘creating a race to the bottom’ in the industry. Unite’s concern relates to the…Read more…
Major reforms call
Unite has called for the urgent reform of company and pension laws, after the true scale of the fundamental flaws that allowed Carillion to collapse earlier this month, began to be revealed. …Read more…
3M pay strike
Workers at dust mask and respirator maker 3M, based in Newton Aycliffe in County Durham, will begin strike action next month in a pay dispute. The workers, who are members of Unite, will…Read more…
Carillion pensions scandal
Carillion’s pensions blackhole is at least £990m, the firm’s former chair of trustees has revealed – nearly twice previously thought. Following the revelation, Unite called for all possible…Read more…
‘Not a luxury’
A survey of over 3,500 Unite members working in the construction sector has found that many are forced to endure entirely inadequate toilets and washing facilities. The survey found that on…Read more…
Pay boost win
Workers at an engineering company in Bolton have secured a major boost to their basic pay after taking a stand. The win means workers’ basic pay will increase on average by £3,500. Earlier…Read more…
Pay cuts threat
Tarmac Building Products Ltd is set to be hit by a series of strikes when Unite start a programme of industrial action next week in a dispute over cuts to pay and two-tier working. The…Read more…
‘Govt should hang head in shame’
The government has heeded trade unions’ calls to set up a national taskforce in support of workers and businesses hit by outsourcing firm Carillion’s collapse. Unite has welcomed that the…Read more…
‘Unnecessary’ housing misery
Unite has accused the management of Vivark, which provides housing maintenance services for thousands of tenants in Knowsley, Merseyside of being ‘pig headed’ for their blinkered approach to an…Read more…
Crossrail strike
The multi-billion pound Crossrail development is set for further delays as Unite, the UK’s construction union, has announced further strikes on the Woolwich section of the project, in an escalating…Read more…
True cost of recklessness and greed
Where does Carillion’s collapse leave our country? The failure of the services giant couldn’t have come at a worse moment. A stagnant economy, uncertainty over Brexit and arguments…Read more…
Unite call to help firms result
The business minister Greg Clark has pressured banks into extending credit to firms left at risk by Carillion’s collapse, following an intervention from Unite. The union is also calling on the…Read more…
‘Fantastic result’
Over a hundred construction workers at three high profile projects across London have collectively secured an estimated £250,000 pounds worth of holiday pay after a Unite organising campaign forced…Read more…
Sorry tale of fat cat greed
Greedy Carillion fat cats are still creaming exorbitant amounts of taxpayers’ cash handed to them by the Tories, even as tens of thousands face losing their jobs following the construction firm’s…Read more…
‘A watershed moment’
As construction and outsourcing firm Carillion collapsed into liquidation yesterday (January 15), Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn called for an end to privatisation of public services. In a video…Read more…
‘We don’t know what’s going on’
The implosion of Carillion sent shockwaves across the country today, as thousands of workers waited anxiously to hear about the future of their jobs. Hundreds of social housing workers in…Read more…