Balfour Beatty Bosses Sacked on Crossrail

NEWS of the sacking by Balfour Beatty of the Project Director,  a Deputy Director and an industrial relation's consultant on Woolwich Crossrail, comes as CONSTRUCTION News reports today that:

'Balfour Beatty has seen off competition from Laing O'Rourke, Morgan Sindall and Vinci to land a £70m contract to complete and fit-out the new Crossrail station at Woolwich.'

Now work will start this month and complete in 2018 when Crossrail is due to fully open for service.
Balfour Beatty’s UK Construction chief executive Nicholas Pollard, said: 'Our experienced major project team’s ability to deliver high profile infrastructure schemes has been recognised with this award of the final Crossrail station package for Europe’s largest construction project. Our use of innovative computer-aided building information modelling tools, linked to off-site construction, will reduce the overall works programme compared to traditional construction methods.'
Sources close to the workers say that Gerry Harvey has asked the Unite union for talks to move the project forwardforward. 
The building site workers are demanding that all negotiations that take place must have an elected Unite Convenor and Woolwich shop stewards present. 
In December last year the Daily Mirror reported on another Crossrail project thus:
'Workers building Crossrail are ‘exhausted physically and mentally’, according to internal company documents seen by the Mirror.  They are having to walk through two miles of tunnels to take a toilet break and wasting two hours a day as a result, company emails reveal.'

Fighting Fund to Expose Blacklisters

BELOW is a copy of a post on the whistle-blower Alan Wainwright's Blog.  It represents the setting up of a fund to support the legal case against Balfour Beatty Engineering Services Ltd. for their alleged part in the blacklisting of workers in the British building trade.  It is only fair to say that Mr. Wainwright himself has a certain history within the construction industry, but that this background gave him a unique insider's knowledge of how the British blacklist operated to the detriment of the lads on the tools.   We at Northern Voices believe that we live in an imperfect world, and that friends in adversity must come together in a common cause to make a better future for all.

Monday, 13 February 2017

UNITE (LIVERPOOL & TEESIDE) AND CAPENHURST SPARKS

Thanks to Roy Bentham, Tony Seaman and the lads at Unite's Liverpool and Teeside branches for kick starting the fighting fund for the legal work to expose Paul Raby, Gerry Harvey and all the other blacklisters at Balfour Beatty Engineering Services Limited (BBESL).

I've just learned that the entire electrical workforce (some 400 plus) at BBESL's Capenhurst project have passed a motion to support my claim against their employer and collections will start this week. It is hoped that the mechanical (some 200 plus) will follow shortly.

Thank you to everyone who made this happen. 

UNITE (LIVERPOOL & TEESIDE) AND CAPENHURST SPARKS

The report below is taken directly from the whistle-blower, Alan Wainwright's Blog.  (Editor)

Thanks to Roy Bentham, Tony Seaman and the lads at Unite's Liverpool and Teeside branches for kick starting the fighting fund for the legal work to expose Paul Raby, Gerry Harvey and all the other blacklisters at Balfour Beatty Engineering Services Limited (BBESL).
I've just learned that the entire electrical workforce (some 400 plus) at BBESL's Capenhurst project have passed a motion to support my claim against their employer and collections will start this week. It is hoped that the mechanical (some 200 plus) will follow shortly.
Thank you to everyone who made this happen.