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UCATT Northern Region Member Wins of Crown Regional Young Decorator of the Year

UCATT Northern region member Paul Bertram has recently won the accolade of Crown Regional Young Decorator of the Year.

Paul who is an apprentice painter and decorator competed in the regional final against apprentices from colleges across the northeast.  Winning the regional final automatically gave Paul an entry into the national final, which was held in Birmingham, where Paul finished a creditable 4th Place in the competition.

Both his employer and his college at both finals supported Paul.  Paul's college tutor Kevin Hocking stated, "This is an amazing achievement by Paul, to achieve the status of the best in the region is good but to come 4th best young painter and decorator in England, Wales and Northern Ireland is exceptional.”

UCATT Meet with Apprentices

UCATT officials in the Northern Region have embarked on their annual visits to the Construction Industry Training Board and Carillon Construction Colleges within the Northern Region.

With the support of the colleges the UCATT officials present tutorials to the new apprentices entering into the construction industry. These tutorials have a set agenda, which covers the industry, UCATT’s role in the industry, Employment Rights and Responsibilities and Health & Safety followed by a question and answer session.

Once again UCATT has received a positive response from not only the apprentices but also the tutors, lecturers and staff within these colleges who the Northern Region would like to thank for the great support they gave during these visits.

• Colleges visited

CITB                                                                 CARILLION

Berwick                                                            North Tyneside

Prudhoe                                                           Gateshead

Prudhoe                                                           Sunderland

Northumberland College – Ashington             Carlisle

Newcastle, Walker                                           Middlesbrough

Newcastle, Ryehill

Sunderland, South Hylton

New College Durham

Hartlepool

Darlington

Redcar & Cleveland

Working,

Kendal

Barrow in Furness

Abuse of Your Labour – Let Us Know

UCATT Northern Region have long been actively fighting and campaigning against exploitation through low wages and poor conditions in the construction industry.

Unfortunately we have identified abuses continuing to take place in agencies and by gangmasters exploiting migrant workers.

UCATT Northern Region has been successful in ensuring that such abuses are kept to a minimum and that certain agencies and gang masters are not being allowed to undermine the wages and conditions that UCATT have negotiated on behalf of the industry.

However exploitation of agency workers and migrant workers is on the increase and we need to ensure that we do not let this ruin our industry.

Please contract the Regional Office on 0191 236 2636 with details of abuse or exploitation and site, company or agency where you believe these abuses are taking place – Confidentiality will be maintained.

Report on Sellafield

UCATT over the past few years have supported our members at BNFL Sellafield on many large contracts.

In the coming months new Contracts starting at Sellafield are

Evaporator D                     Costains

                                        Balfour Beatty

Sellafield SDP Project          Nor West Holst

                                        Laing O’Rourke

Also Amec are very active in picking up contracts, along with Stobbarts and Border Construction where UCATT have a good membership.