CALLING ALL RANK & FILE CONSTRUCTION WORKERS AND TRADE UNIONISTS
MASS PICKET
WESTBOURNE PARK CROSSRAIL SITE
MONDAY 17TH SEPTEMBER
6:30AM
Crossrail go hysterical over unionised contractor after safety concerns were raised
Today (Friday 14th)
 at 3pm every unionised worker for E.I.S. electrical contractor on 
Crossrail at Westbourne Park tube will be searched and removed from 
site. 
McGingley union rep was dismissed from site earlier today. 
This
 is the opening shots in what appears to be a major battle over 
unionisation and safety on the Crossrail project. Unofficial picket lines
 look set to appear very soon and could cause chaos in West London.
Bernard McAuley UNITE national Construction Officer has been in negotiations at the Crossrail project all day.
More info and contact details below
E.I.S. Electrical working on the BFK (BAM FERROVIAL KIER) CROSS RAIL tunnelling
 contract company have been removed for hi-lighting safety issue 
Unite saftey rep Rodney Valentine was removed from site immediately
 after he was elected he was suspended from site for 6 weeks and 
eventually transferred to another project where he worked for 1 week 
before being suspended again he is now approaching his 3rd week 
Unite shop steward Frank Morris was banned from the construction site after raising saftey issues on the tunnel boring machine he was removed from site and placed in a site hut for 11 hours per day with absolutley no job to do in solitary confinement.
E.I.S. electrical supervisor was removed from project after taking a picture of 11000V HI VOLTAGE CABLE which was lying under bolders and had scaffold clips and boards thrown on it because he took the picture to present to the in house safety team he was removed by main contractors BFk's MR Horrello working on behalf of Ferrovial.
We have the photos 
BFK have decided to relieve 
themselves off all responsibility and Terminated  E.I.S. contract mid 
term even though there is a further 3 years on the contract and other 
recruitment agencies are actively recruiting positions and even actively
 poaching E.I.S. employees.
Unite the union sees it this a attack on the union organisation. The primary motive for the removal
 of E.I.S. from the Westboune project  is  to to remove a unionised workforce who's representatives wanted to participate in the safe operation of the BFK Westbourne Park cross rail project.  
Harry Cowap 07812678228 Unite the union regional officer  
"the safety rep has done nothing wrong 
the shop steward has done nothing wrong 
the men employed on site were doing a good job  
E.I.S. the company has done nothing wrong"
above the words of E.I.S.  Managing Director 
 
 
 
They also got rid of Neil davis the BFK safety manager because Mr horrillo dident get on with him.
ReplyDeleteThey appointed a very experianced tunnelling safety advisor but he left after 9 month?
Ferrovial the spanish part of BFK havent a clue about safety and many issues have been glossed over including a tunnel eye collapse that nearly killed 3 workers.
i think crossrail are great for inviting everyone to there bond street site this weekend http://events.londonopenhouse.org/Building/19093
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