Residents blockade Hackney council construction project
Channel: ReelNews
Date: 2020-05-01

Hackney residents marked Mayday by blockading a completely non-essential construction project - commissioned by the local Labour council.


The mayor of Hackney is saying that "the Council is continuing to follow the Government's guidance on construction sites, and work is continuing only where it is safe to do so."
 

The government forced the Construction Leadership Council to change their original advice on social distancing (that no construction work should continue if 2m social distancing wasn’t possible) when it dawned on them that all construction would have to shut in that case. Now they are going to change it again to do away with social distancing on construction sites completely. 



UNITE the Union strongly oppose this dangerous change in the rules - which were already causing the pandemic to spread like wildfire.



The government advice is putting people in serious danger, has already led to deaths and is undoubtedly responsible for hundreds more - and as a labour council they should follow the advice of healthworkers who are calling for construction to be shut down, not a government who is more concerned about keeping the economy going than keeping people safe.