Major construction dispute erupts in Teesside
Channel: ReelNews
Date: 2015-07-28

Mass pickets at the Wilton Centre, near Redcar bring traffic chaos and local approval as UNITE, GMB and UCATT members take joint action for the first time in 20 years. They are now on their 16th Friday of direct action and civil disobedience against the conditions on a new construction project, run by SITA UK. SITA UK are exploiting foreign workers and marginalising local workers at the project by paying foreign workers as little as 6 - 8 euros an hour - way short of the £16.10 an hour they should be paying according to the NAECI national industry agreement.  The pickets are demanding that everyone is treated equally - pay the foreign workers the proper rate, and give the many experienced local workers a chance of employment. This is a major dispute - and in the words of one picket, "it needs to go national."