Fair access for construction workers campaign - press releases
17 July 2009
Unite, the UK’s largest union, is to ballot its members for
strike action at seven major power and petrochemical plants across
Britain. The ballot will run from 11 August and end on 1 September
with any agreed industrial action following shortly after.
29 June 2009
Workers at the Lindsey oil refinery have voted in favour of the
deal reached between unions and construction employers last
week.
22 June 2009
Tom Hardacre, national officer for Unite, the biggest union in
construction, will address workers at the Lindsey Oil refinery
tomorrow morning (23rd June) at an official demonstration.
Total must get serious about seeking a
solution to the unofficial dispute at Lindsey says
Unite
21 June 2009
Assistant general secretary, Les Bayliss said: "Total refused to
meet with ACAS and the unions last Friday even though unofficial
action was spreading across the country.
Talks fail to get underway at
Lindsey
18 June 2009
Unite's Assistant General Secretary, Les Bayliss said: "Unite
and ACAS made themselves available to meet with the employer at
Lindsey with a view to getting a resolution to the problems at the
refinery.
Construction workers
call for a national strike ballot
5 June 2009
Unite, Britain's biggest union, is preparing to ballot up to
20,000 members in engineering and construction for official strike
action following the failure to reach a deal to renew a national
agreement, covering workers building and maintaining Britain's
power stations and petrochemical sites.
Unemployed construction workers demonstrate outside Isle of Grain
power station
24 March 2009
Hundreds of skilled but unemployed construction workers, being
refused work at the Isle of Grain power station, will hold a
demonstration outside the site today (Tuesday) to call on Alstom to
give UK-based labour fair access to work
City rally to fight for fair access to local construction
jobs
19 March 2009
Hundreds of unemployed construction workers from across the
north west will rally in Liverpool city centre on Saturday 21st
March calling for fair access to jobs on UK engineering and
construction projects.
Workers excluded from Isle of Grain stage protest
19 March 2009
Workers refused access to work at the Isle of Grain power
station construction site will hold a demonstration today
(Thursday) outside the local job centre in Chatham, Kent between
11.00am and 1.00pm.
Isle of Grain power station: UK workers excluded, EU workers
exploited
13 March 2009
Unite has expressed outrage today (Friday) following
confirmation that an employer which is already excluding UK labour
from working on its contract is also exploiting non UK workers by
paying below the national rate and breaking UK law.
Unite to confront Remak over pay differences
12 March 2009
Unite will confront employers at the Isle of
Grain construction site today, to demand an explanation for a job
contract for a Polish worker which sets out an hourly wage which is
30 per cent less than the nationally agreed rate. The employer in
question claims to abide by a national agreement on pay.
Derek Simpson to lead march for fair access to jobs at
Staythorpe
23 February 2009
Unite’s joint general secretary, Derek Simpson, will lead a
march (see notes) of hundreds of unemployed construction workers
tomorrow (Tuesday, 24th) calling for fair access to jobs for
unemployed construction workers being refused work at Staythorpe
power station.
10 February 2009
Hundreds of skilled but unemployed construction workers, being
refused work at the Staythorpe and Isle of Grain power stations,
will hold co-ordinated demonstrations outside the sites to call on
Alstom to give UK-based labour fair access to work.
10 February 2009
A delegation of Unite members working in engineering and
construction will deliver a petition to Number 10, calling on
Gordon Brown to insist that employers give UK workers fair access
to work on UK engineering and construction projects.
05 February 2009
Welcoming the decision, Unite joint general secretary, Derek
Simpson said, "This is a good deal which establishes the principle
of fair access for UK workers on British construction projects. We
now expect other companies in the construction industry to level
the playing field for UK workers. The workers involved in the
unofficial strike can now get back to work.
04 February 2009
Unemployed construction workers refused work at a
Nottinghamshire power station are taking their fight for fair
access to jobs directly to the London HQ of Alstom, the company at
the centre of the row.
04 February 2009
Workers involved in the unofficial dispute at the Lindsey oil
refinery will vote on a deal tomorrow morning to end the unofficial
walkouts.
03 February 2009
Unite joint general secretary Derek Simpson condemns the
politics of hate.
02 February 2009
Unite's plan for dealing with the wave of unofficial strike
action across UK construction sites.
30 January 2009
Unite has raised the growing problem of UK workers being
excluded from important engineering and construction projects at
the highest levels of government and is consulting its lawyers on
the potential illegality of some employers' practices in the
engineering and construction industries.
28 January 2009
Unemployed construction workers, being refused work at
Staythorpe power station continue protests at the power
station.
16 January 2009
Hundreds of skilled but unemployed construction workers, being
refused work at the Staythorpe power station, will begin sustained
demonstrations outside the site to call on Alstom to let them
in.
16 December 2008
Unite the UK’s largest union is outraged at the decision by
French multinational Alstom to allow its sub-contractors not to use
local or UK based labour during the construction of a new power
station in Kent.
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