Engineering construction

Industry and workers

New struggles — and old issues — in construction engineering

Workers and union officials in the engineering construction industry long suspected it, but now they have proof. Sub-contractors in the industry have been paying some "posted workers" (workers who are sent by their employer to work in a different country on a temporary basis) substantially less then nationally agreed rates for the job. An audit demanded by Unite and GMB unions into the pay of workers building a massive new gas turbine power station at Staythorpe in Nottinghamshire showed that a sub-contractor (Somi) was underpaying its Italian workers by an average of 1,300 euros a month. The...

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