Sparks win as contractors cave
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The attempt by the UK’s major construction contractors to impose a new collective agreement for mechanical and electrical construction workers has collapsed after the remaining six companies followed
Engineering construction
Sparks vote to strike
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Electricians working for Balfour Beatty Engineering Services have voted by 81% to take strike action in their battle against their employer’s attempt to unilaterally withdraw from the Joint Industry Board (JIB), the body which oversees union-negotiated pay and conditions.
Site workers gain confidence
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Four hundred workers took part in a protest on Monday 26 September at the Lindsey Oil Refinery as the campaign against the plan by eight big contractors to cut pay for construction electricians continues.
Rank-and-file leads construction fight: unions must ballot for action
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By a supporter of the Site Worker paper
Construction bosses go to war against workers
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The UK’s major electrical and mechanical contractors have launched an unprecedented attack on collective bargaining by attempting to unilaterally impose a new agreement on the industry.
Behind the Saltend defeat
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More information has filtered out about the defeat of the locked-out engineering construction workers at the biofuels site being built at Saltend, near Hull, by the BP-led consortium Vivergo.
Saltend ends
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The Saltend workers’ dispute has come to a frustrating end after nearly three months.
Saltend workers in court protest
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Saltend workers demonstrated outside Hull Magistrates’ Court hearing on 17 May for GMB national officer Phil Whitehurst who was arrested on a picket on 4 May.
BP locks out engineering construction workers
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A senior GMB union official was arrested on 4 May as police stepped up their attempts to break up protests by locked-out workers at the Saltend biofuels plant construction site.
Engineering construction: correction and update
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In our article on conditions in engineering construction (Solidarity 3-166) it was not unambiguously clear that employers are not using the Posted Workers Directive as such to attack workers. Rather they have used loopholes in the Posted Workers Directive created by recent European Court of Justice rulings. (We said the Directive had been “amended” by the court).