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LATEST NEWS & EVENTS Unite backs construction worker protest at Ratcliffe power station  Unite is offering trade union support to construction workers who will demonstrate outside Ratcliffe power station tomorrow (February 1st). The protest is the latest action in a long-running dispute over proposals to make up to 30 per cent pay cuts. Workers at the Nottinghamshire power station will demonstrate because its major contractor, Spie Matthew Hall, is part of a group of "breakaway" construction companies that are imposing semi-skilled grades onto the mechanical and electrical sector. Workers in five of seven breakaway companies have been told to sign new contracts on inferior pay, and terms and conditions, or risk being dismissed. Balfour Beatty, Crown House Technologies, Spie Matthew Hall, Shepherd Engineering Services and NG Bailey have issued Unite with a legal notice saying they will dismiss thousands of employees before re-engaging them on new, inferior contracts. Unite regional officer Steve Syson, said: "Our members are extremely angry at these proposed changes which are not only an attack on long standing and highly regarded industry agreements, but a serious attack on thousands of construction workers livelihoods." Posted by Georgina Price 
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