Tag: strike

According to the Unite union, carpenters, bricklayers, plasterers, roofers, glaziers, plumbers and painters who work for Sandwell Council are angry that an agreed market supplement of £2,900 has been withdrawn. The industrial action is expected to impact council property repairs and add delays to its...

Workers at the Fawley oil refinery in Hampshire are among those who have voted for strike actionThe GMB union said that more than 3,000 workers at Stanlow, Fawley, Valero, Grangemouth and Mossmorran oil refineries and the Sellafield nuclear power station have been voting on a...

Unite’s NAECI members carry out repair and maintenance at oil refineries, power stations and pharmaceutical and petrochemical plants. They are also involved in the construction of new build projects of critical industrial infrastructure. The workers have seen the value of their pay erode over the...

Workers at social housing landlord Magenta Living are in dispute over new working practices that they fear heighten their risk of  exposure to asbestos. The 100-or-so repair and maintenance workers, who are members of the Unite union, help to look after 13,000 properties, mainly in...

The workforce was all set to start 13 days of strike action tomorrow, 10th August but this will not now happen. A continuous overtime ban has also been suspended. The two companies are part of Hill & Smith Holdings and share premises in Chester-le-Street, County...

Siemens Energy was fined £900,000 and VolkerInfra £180,000. Manchester Magistrates’ Court heard how VolkerInfra Ltd, a specialist high voltage cabling contractor, had been subcontracted by principal contractor Siemens Energy to carry out cabling works as part of a wider construction project at Whitegate substation in...