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The Scottish Government has been urged to launch an immediate investigation after it was revealed that employment agencies have been advertising for workers to operate for 15 hours a day or 80 hours a week on the Aberdeen Western Peripheral Route (AWPR). In one of the adverts, which were uncovered b

A 20-year-old worker has died after falling from a ladder at Bearsden railway station in East Dunbartonshire. British Transport Police (BTP) said officers were called to the scene following reports that a person had fallen from height, causing serious injury, shortly before 10am on Tuesday, 05 June.

Pat Rafferty, the Unite Scottish secretary Representatives of both employers and employees have come together in Scotland to press the case with the Scottish Government for the protection of title for the occupation of electrician.

The union which represents Construction Industry Training Board (CITB) staff and management representatives has described the organisation’s proposed headquarters relocation as “deeply flawed”. Unite has compiled a highly comprehensive 32-page document in response to the planned move from Birc

Construction workers operating under the Construction Industry Joint Council (CIJC) agreement are set for a boost in pay and allowances next month after a new two year pay deal worth 6.2% was agreed. The CIJC is the largest agreement in the construction industry and principally covers workers operat

Workers at the Construction Industry Training Board (CITB) have launched a petition to put pressure on its new chairman to reverse plans to outsource the organisation’s construction training and oppose plans to outsource so called ‘back office functions’. Members of the Unite union are collect

News that the Construction Industry Training Board (CITB) has confirmed it will end all directing training by 2020, will create a skills black hole and strip the industry of the capability to undertake specialist training, according to the UK’s construction union. In November, the CITB announced a

Drivers working for a Maidenhead-based cement production company are gearing up to take strike action in a dispute over pay. Around 240 workers at Castle Cement, which is part of the Hanson HeidelbergCement Group, have voted in favour of staging industrial action later this month due to a "very unsa

The Unite union has called for stronger legal guidelines concerning the construction and maintenance of wind farms after a 74-year-old worker died in East Ayrshire. The victim was working with younger colleague at Craigdarroch Farm in New Cumnock when the pair became stranded in heavy snow.

The Unite union is set to take legal action against Carillion after claiming that the collapsed construction and support services firm breached its legal obligations to give notice of redundancies. The company, which employs 20,000 people in the UK including thousands in Scotland, was placed into co

Trade bodies and unions have called on both the UK and Scottish governments to ensure that appropriate lessons are learned for future decisions on the procurement of large scale construction projects following the collapse on the UK’s second biggest construction firm. Carillion was placed into com

Unite workers taking part in a demonstration in Edinburgh today Members of the Unite union working in the construction industry are lobbying the UK government today as part of a nationwide day of action in its ongoing campaign for justice for blacklisted workers.

Construction union Unite has issued high court proceedings against the “controlling minds” behind the industry blacklisting scandal. The high court case for unlawful conspiracy is against David Cochrane, Cullum McAlpine, Danny O’Sullivan and Stephen Quant, all four of whom undertook the role o

In the midst of a widening skills crisis the construction industry must spell out how it will train more British workers to avoid a “calamitous Brexit for the sector”, according to Unite. The UK’s construction union made the call as trade bodies this week warned that house builders in particul

Sarah Beale The Construction Industry Training Board (CITB) is to end the delivery of direct training and step back from operating its National Construction College site in Inchinnan as part of a “bold new strategy” for its future offer.