SHERIDAN DEMANDS ANSWERS ON PARLIAMENT BUILDING WORKERS CONDITIONS


Tommy Sheridan will demand a response from the Presiding Officer at the earliest opportunity on a report by the building workers union UCATT detailing a whole number of breaches of the Working Rule agreement.
Tommy Sheridan said:
“Alan Ritchie has detailed a shocking catalogue of exploitation and abuse of workers rights on the site of the new Scottish Parliament.
“Workers are having their wages deducted to pay for Health and safety equipment in direct contravention of the law; others are finding that deductions are being made for holiday pay.
“We have a situation in which a limitless amount of public money is being poured into the new parliament building and yet the workers who are building it are being ruthlessly exploited by the contractors who stand to make millions of pounds profit.
“I will be demanding a response from George Reid at the earliest opportunity on the real scandal of Holyrood, the exploitation of building workers to line the pockets of the building companies and the agencies who are consciously breaking a myriad of employment laws.”