The Socialist 20 May 2009

We need workers' MPs on a worker's wage

Swindling MPs are detached from reality

Reinstate Rob Williams!

Thousands march for jobs in Birmingham

Visteon workers' victory march

Why socialists oppose the EU

No2EU - yes to democracy

Sri Lanka: The guns fall silent but the tragedy continues

End Gaza blockade

Tiananmen 1989: Seven weeks that shook the world

Youth Fight for Jobs fortnight of action

Enthusiastic reception for Youth Fight for jobs

Don't close our schools!

Charlotte Turner

Kings College, London

Lewisham Bridge rooftop protest

BT say they're sorry

Welsh-speaking worker bullied by boss

PCS conference gathers

Construction workers walk out

Union organisation necessary to defend working conditions




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Construction workers walk out

In a continuation of the battle to stop large construction firms bringing in workers on lower than the trade union negotiated wages and conditions, workers at the South Hook liquefied natural gas site in Milford Haven, Pembrokeshire, walked out on 19 May. Contractor Hertel had failed to comply with an agreement to offer lagging work to local workers.

The South Hook workers were joined by workers at the Aberthaw power station in the Vale of Glamorgan and at the Lindsey oil refinery site in Lincolnshire.

The Lindsey workers were at the centre of a dispute over pay, skills and conditions earlier this year and successfully fought off attempts by a contractor to bring in workers from Italy on lower wages. The wage rates of the whole workforce were restored to the levels specified in the NAECI agreement.

As the article below shows, the NAECI agreement is constantly having to be defended against attempts to undermine it by the construction bosses.

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