Skelton Grange,Leeds blockaded as workers demand HZI #PayTheRate
Channel: ReelNews
Date: 2022-03-01

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.