Unite

The Scottish Joint Industry Board (SJIB) will celebrate its 50th anniversary at a gala banquet at Edinburgh Castle later this week. SJIB members and special guests will gather at the historic landmark on Thursday 21 November to mark five decades of achievement.

The Unite union has repeated its call for the Scottish Parliament to pass the Culpable Homicide (Scotland) Bill following the tragic death of a construction worker in Glasgow last week.

Claims made by union representatives regarding planned industrial action at Scottish Borders Council’s roads department have been refuted by the local authority. Members of Unite will hold 24 hours of industrial action later this month over a dispute relating to working conditions.

Employees at Scottish Borders Council’s roads department will hold 24 hours of industrial action later this month over a dispute relating to working conditions.

Construction workers at a gas plant near Peterhead are to be balloted for industrial action following a dispute over safety concerns and working conditions.

More than 500 hundred workers are set to take industrial action following two ballots at Dundee City Council’s construction and environmental services departments.

Temporary agency workers at a Robertson housing site in Dundee have been moved to PAYE following complaints by the Unite union.

Union members in construction and some environmental services within Dundee City Council are to be balloted for industrial action. More than 500 workers will receive a ballot from June 3.

Unite members in the roads department at Scottish Borders Council (SBC) are to be balloted for industrial action.

A long running case against seven large construction companies who blacklisted workers has been settled with a £1.9 million compensation agreement.

The Building and Allied Trades Joint Industrial Council (BATJIC) has agreed a 2.75% pay increase for SME construction employees following successful pay negotiations between the Federation of Master Builders (FMB) and the Unite union. The one-year-deal is below last year’s 3.1% rise and will c

Construction union Unite is taking legal action on behalf of workers who say they were blacklisted by construction companies. The case, which will be heard at the High Court, comes after the names of more than 3,000 construction workers were found in a file compiled by The Consulting Association, wh

Unite is launching a campaign to ensure that all workers in construction the industry are provided with death benefits following the recent tragic fatality of a worker in Fife. Last week a worker employed by Brown and Mason was killed on the Longannet power station.

Unite’s craft membership in local authorities have voted to accept the revised pay offer from the Convention of Scottish Local Authorities (COSLA), the union confirmed today. The craft agreement, which is a separate proposal from the wider local authority offer, was accepted by 84% of those vo

The UK’s construction union Unite has launched a campaign to ensure that female workers in the sector can have period dignity in the workplace with a site in Glasgow the first to sign up. The campaign follows a survey of the union’s women construction members which found that a lack of f