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Garvey Bros Pay Price

UCATT have managed win compensation for a member after being made redundant by Garvey Bros. After being told of his redundancy, the member turned to UCATT for assistance and on the London region’s advice wrote to the company to seek holiday pay, redundancy pay and claiming unfair dismissal. Like so many construction firms, Garvey Bros believed they could ignore one of their workers. However with determination and the backing of UCATT, legal proceedings were commenced. After several approaches our members was paid £15,000 to settle the case proving that UCATT member’s can not simply be ignored.

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UCATT Members Share £30,000

UCATT have won a group of member’s working on Terminal 5 a share of £30,000 after they had been threatened with redundancy. The members’ company had refused to consult with UCATT over the redundancy despite being a recognised union on the site. After UCATT commenced legal action, the settlement was negotiated by UCATT officials in an out of court agreement to the delight of our concerned members who had feared for their jobs. To top off the compensation they received, the members were offered a transfer so can look forward to the Christmas period without fear of redundancy.

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Tragedy of Construction Deaths Continue

Five construction workers have tragically been killed at work in the last three weeks. There have been four deaths in London where workers were killed in Elephant and Castle, Kingsway and Upper Thames Street, where UCATT member Stephen Griffiths fell whilst erecting scaffolding. A road gang worker was killed on the A2. In Shropshire, a builder was also crushed to death under 20 tonnes of rubble.

Alan Ritchie, general secretary of UCATT, said: "This latest tragedy underlines the unacceptably high level of deaths in construction. Many companies remain blasé about health and safety. The whole industry must make the safety of workers a key issue. If we don't then workers will continue to be killed at this alarming rate."

There have been 29 deaths so far this year. If trends continue then deaths could increase above the 77 workers killed last year.

Alan Ritchie, added: "It is shocking that 29 construction workers have already been killed at work this year. If this was any other profession it would be front page news. This is a national scandal. Action must be taken now to stop killer bosses. The number of workers killed must not be allowed to rise even higher than last year's astronomical level."

Peter Hain who has responsibility for the HSE has called a safety forum for September 17 to try to reduce the number of construction deaths which rose by over 31 per cent last year.

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Holiday Pay

UCATT continues to campaign on the issue of holiday pay with some success. We have noticed since last Conference that more Contractors are issuing ‘Contracts of Engagement’ that do not require the individual to carry out the work personally and allow him/her to send in a substitute in their place. In 2005 we launched a campaign against this practice. The result was that one of our members sent in a substitute, who also happened to be a UCATT Full Time Official. He was immediately asked to leave site and refused to do so as he claimed he was under the control of the bricklayer he was substituting. Eventually the Police were called and following negotiations with them the Full Time Official left the site. Since then UCATT officials have met with the Main Contractor and not only has the Company concerned been removed from their Tender List, all companies now employed by the Main Contractor are now informed that they cannot issue Contracts to the workforce containing a substitution clause.

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