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Yet another company trying to get away with not paying nationally agreed rates and importing their own poorly paid workforce – this time at Skelton Grange energy from waste project in Leeds.
But a huge turnout by UNITE and GMB construction workers signalled the start of a concerted campaign to make the contractors, HZI, see sense, as they blockaded the entrance and turned away deliveries.
This has been a problem on energy from waste projects for around 20 years now, with no attempt from the firms involved to upskill or provide apprenticeships to local people – at a time of a national skills shortage. But today was just a taster of what’s to come if HZI don’t pay the rate.
