Unite statement on power industry walkouts
Unite joint general secretary Derek Simpson said: "Unite has
raised the growing problem of UK workers being excluded from
important engineering and construction projects at the highest
levels of government, including with the prime minister and the
secretary of state for energy and climate change.
"Unite's national executive (the governing body of the union)
has today called for a national protest in Westminster. Unite is
consulting its lawyers on the potential illegality of some
employers' practices in the engineering and construction
industries.
"The union is doing everything in its power to ensure that
employers end this immoral, potentially illegal and politically
dangerous practice of excluding UK workers from some construction
projects.
"The government must act urgently and insist that companies
involved in engineering and construction projects give UK workers
equal opportunities to build Britain's infrastructure."
ENDS
To contact the Unite press office please call: 020 7420 8916 /
8914 / 8928 / 8938.
Notes to editors
Unite is opposed to the practice of some employers in the
engineering and construction industries explicitly refusing to
consider applications for work from UK labour.
The government has invested billions of pounds into the economy
to support jobs during this recession. This strategy depends on
employers playing their part. Apart from the Olympics, engineering
construction is the only sector of the construction industry with a
visible workload going forward.
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