Industry news

News for members working in mechanical and electrical contracting, plumbing, building and engineering construction. Items 1 to 10 of 63 displayed
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Construction blacklisting - have you suffered?

09 January 2012

Construction blacklisting - have you suffered?

2012 Assuring Competence in Engineering Construction (ACE): card renewal process

03 January 2012

2012 Assuring Competence in Engineering Construction (ACE): card renewal process - IMPORTANT ANNOUNCEMENT TO ENGINEERING CONSTRUCTION MEMBERS - There are important changes to the ACE Card Scheme for renewing your card. Click here for more information.

Employers treat local government craftworkers with contempt

04 July 2011

Unions representing 40,000 thousand local government craftworkers have accused employers of treating workers with contempt and of undermining a national agreement.

EEI Promulgation 3-10 student engineers

27 August 2010

2010 Review of Minimum Salaries

Ballot result

17 August 2010

Proposed facility for Heating, Ventilation, Air Conditioning and Refrigeration disciplines to opt into JIB terms and conditions

Do you work under the JIB or HVAC agreements?

28 June 2010

Unite is about to run separate consultative ballots amongst its JIB and HVAC members regarding changes to the JIB agreement.

Britain's energy needs create huge opportunities for jobs in construction

24 March 2010

A prestigious conference on Britain's future energy needs highlighted the huge opportunities for job creation in construction and manufacturing.

Unite hails deal for thousands of construction workers

12 February 2010

Up to 30,000 UK construction workers are set to benefit from new arrangements that will bring together mechanical and electrical contracting workers under a single negotiating structure.

Apprentice boost vital to avert UK skills disaster

04 February 2010

Chronic skills shortages will spell disaster for the UK's construction and engineering sectors unless the government accelerates young people's training.

Unite welcomes government's announcement to introduce new rules to ban blacklisting

02 December 2009

Unite, the biggest union in the construction industry has today (2nd December) welcomed the government's announcement to introduce new rules to ban the practice of blacklisting workers for their trade union activities or membership.

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