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Dundee City Council has launched a consultation over outsourcing its building and maintenance work to Tayside Contracts. First revealed in October, the proposals could see around 380 employees in the local authority’s construction and house maintenance departments have their contracts taken over b

Economy secretary Keith Brown has called in an arbitration service over claims that workers on the £1.4 billion Queensferry Crossing project are being given low pay. An investigation by construction union UCATT claimed that joiners working for Portuguese sub-contractor Sosia Ltd were being paid £7

Scottish Labour MSP Neil Findlay has called for an investigation into accusations that workers are being paid low wages on the Queensferry Crossing project. An investigation by construction union UCATT has claimed joiners for Portuguese sub-contractor Sosia Ltd were being paid £7.67 an hour and lab

(from left) Michael Conroy (UCATT training), John Noble (Aberdeen City Council building services business development manager), Jamie Hepburn MSP, Mark Fordyce, John Dunbar, Scot Myles, Raymond Sim, Roger Chamberlain, James Aitken and Councillor Neil Cooney UCATT and Unite the Union invited Jamie He

Policies employed by Laing O’Rourke over the extent of union access being permitted to its £212 million Dumfries hospital project amount to “backdoor blacklisting” and “can’t be tolerated on a public sector project”, construction union UCATT has said. The two parties are at loggerheads

UCATT protesters outside the £212m Dumfries hospital project earlier this month Scottish Labour MSP Colin Smyth has tabled a Parliamentary motion criticising Laing O'Rourke's decision not to allow union officials access to the £212 million Dumfries hospital project site.

UCATT members during the protest at a Dumfries hospital The proposed merger between UCATT and Britain’s largest union Unite has been confirmed after 85.5 per cent of the construction union’s members voted in favour of the move last week.

Construction union UCATT has raised concerns over a decision by two major Scottish infrastructure projects not to reappoint union convenors. The two consortia building the new Queensferry Crossing and the Aberdeen West Peripheral Route (AWPR) schemes have rejected the idea of replacing union conveno

Brian Rye A total of 43 construction workers were killed in the workplace in the year to 31st March 2016, figures from the Health & Safety Executive (HSE) have revealed.

Brian Rye A two-year pay deal for more than 400,000 workers has been agreed between contractors and construction unions.

The Union of Construction, Allied Trades & Technicians (UCATT) has reached the end as an independent union after members voted to merge with the larger Unite union. The decision was taken at the union's conference yesterday following what was described as “a full, frank and passionate debate a

A survey has revealed very real concerns about the prevalence of mental health problems amongst construction workers, while another has urged the industry to increase its performance in managing workplace related stress. The results of a survey of its members by UCATT, which was published at the uni

Eight construction firms have offered financial settlements to workers who said they were blacklisted within the industry, ending a four year campaign for compensation. The GMB and UCATT unions announced they have settled outstanding claims against Balfour Beatty, Carillion, Costain, Kier, Laing O'R

The latest pay talks for the largest construction industrial agreement have broken up after unions and employers were unable to agree a deal. Around 500,000 construction workers are affected by The Construction Industry Joint Council Working Rule Agreement.

Brian Rye Unions representing workers employed under the largest collective agreement in the construction industry have described the employer’s paltry pay offer as “insulting”.