25 Mar 2020 By Contributor The following briefing has been produced in collaboration between the Associati...

 forwarded to NV by Joe Bailey THE construction union Unite is calling for fundamental changes in the way that the constructi...

 & the risks of speaking up! AFTER a year the fall of Carillion is still having consequences with many sub-contractors having lost hug...

CONSTRUCTION insolvencies  have doubled in two years from 340 in the third quarter of 2016 to 677 in the third quarter of this year. Accor...

by Brian Bamford NORTHERN VOICES has covered story of the Carillion collapse extensively, and based on reports in the Financial Times and...

by Brian Bamford THIS week   Tom Fitzpatrick in Construction News wrote that there are indications of a 'split between those [compan...

Zak Garner-Purkis, news editor, Construction News - 12th, April 2018. SPAINs construction secto r was one of the hardest hit in Europ...

 IN last Wednesday's Guardian, the writer, Tamasin Cave in an article titled 'Find out if your councillor is being wined and dined...

CARILLION's ex-finance director, Richard Adam, cashed-in nearly £800,000 worth of of his shares before the firm's collapse. Toda...

 'Changing Dynamic[s]' in building trade! NV Editor: The story below shows an interview last September between the leader of Tame...

A GROUP of birds are flying around three Carillion cranes which stand abandoned on a site in central London. One hovers and eventua...

'He hath put down the mighty from [their] seats, and exalted them of low degree'  (Luke 1:52: King James Bible) by Brian Ba...

THIS morning’s announcement that Carillion has sunk , while widely anticipated in recent weeks, still comes as a bitter shock. That it co...

by Brian Bamford LAST November, the leader of the Liberal Democrat Party, Sir Vince Cable, expressed his anxiety that the Tory governmen...

Tim Clark, acting news editor, Construction News (Monday 19 June): When is a product banned and when is it not banne...

 By Gordon Anderson in 'Construction News' 3 April, 2017 THE story of blacklisting is a well-known one - and one that many thought...

NEWS of the sacking by Balfour Beatty of the Project Director,  a Deputy Director and an industrial relation's consultant on Woolwich Cr...

ATTITUDES towards sexuality in the construction industry requires some careful research and a journal in the British building trade, Cons...