UCATT

19/01/2018

'You have no idea what's going on.'

13/01/2018

Work and pensions secretary was director of demolition firm served two notices for health and safety violations, says Labour

08/07/2017

As 200,000 gathered for the annual festival in Durham, the Labour leader challenged the embattled Prime Minister to settle the hung parliament at the polls

12/06/2017

Jeremy Corbyn was just 2,227 votes away from having the chance to become Prime Minister in the general election, an analysis of marginal seats has revealed. If the Labour leader had won seven seats narrowly taken by the Conservatives, he would have had the opportunity to form a “progressive alliance...

02/05/2017

26/04/2017

20/12/2016

Coverage of the Crossrail welfare and survelliance scandal in the Daily Mirrror. Crossrail Workers left exhauasted by degrading dehumanising and dangerous conditions
http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/crossrail-workers-left-exhausted-degrading-9485833

Workers building Crossrail are ‘exhausted physically and mentally’ and have to walk through two miles of tunnels for a toilet break, company emails reveal

19/12/2016

Guardian newspaper covers Crossrail workplace abuse story.
https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2016/dec/19/crossrail-documents-reveal-fears-over-welfare-of-workers

Emails between contractor and Crossrail bosses appear to acknowledge extent of problems facing workers in tunnel

19/12/2016

A series of emails obtained by UCATT using Freedom of Information requests have revealed the shocking level of exploitation and intimidation of workers on Crossrail.
The emails reveal that workers were forced to walk for an hour to access toilets and where "physically and mentally" exhausted.
In a sinister turn of events when UCATT held a protest at the site a photo of the demonstration was widely distributed with the Crossrail workers who were identified later being victimised.
https://www.ucatt.org.uk/crossrail-emails-reveal-untold-worker-abuses

Finally – after shameful delays and supposedly misplaced emails – UCATT has secured the proof that the main Crossrail contractor, the Costain-led ATC consortium, has not only been flogging its workforce to levels of exhaustion and neglecting basic welfare facilities but also illicitly the images of…

13/12/2016

UCATT calls on the Government's pension review to finally provide an auto-enrolment pension for all construction workers..

It is increasingly recognised that a one size fits all pension age is unfair to manual workers in physically demanding who are faced with a double whammy in...

13/12/2016

Scottish Lothian Labour MSP Neil Findlay has called for an immediate enquiry in to sub-industry pay rates and health and safety breaches on the Queensferry Crossing construction project.

A Portuguese sub-contractor is reportedly paying EU nations £4 under the nationally agreed rate.

Mr Findlay and UCATT officials are set to meet Scottish Economy Secretary Keith Brown on Thursday to discuss the issue.