Construction union UCATT has called for an urgent rethink of how maintenance contracts on local authority and housing association properties are conducted, following the second high profile corporate failure in this area in two months.
Construction union UCATT has called for an urgent rethink of how maintenance contracts on local authority and housing association properties are conducted, following the second high profile corporate failure in this area in two months.
Analysis by construction union UCATT has discovered that six construction workers were killed in the week that the Government announced it was slashing funding to the Health and Safety Executive by 35%.
UCATT have prepared a detailed briefing on how the Coalition Government’s Comprehensive Spending Review that was announced on Wednesday 20th October, on how this will affect members, construction workers, families, the elderly and society in general.
Activists from construction union UCATT will be taking part in activities throughout Britain as part of European Health and Safety Week, which runs from 25th-29th October.
Construction union UCATT has warned that the announcement that spending on the Health and Safety Executive will be slashed by 35% by 2015, will risk workers lives.
Construction union UCATT has welcomed the decision by Hull Council to award the housing maintenance contract formerly held by Connaught to Lovells.
Construction union UCATT has warned that the Government’s Comprehensive Spending Review is further starving the construction industry of funding.
Construction union UCATT are calling on the Government not to cut social housing funding, following the publication of damning new evidence from the National Housing Federation.
Construction union UCATT have warned that the Young Review on health and safety must not act as a forerunner to further Government attacks on safety legislation.
Construction union UCATT have warned that a new report from the CBI is a thinly disguised call for the private sector to be given unfettered access to plunder social housing contracts for profit.