{"id":15151,"date":"2018-05-03T16:25:16","date_gmt":"2018-05-03T15:25:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/unitelive.org\/?p=15151"},"modified":"2020-11-12T12:58:46","modified_gmt":"2020-11-12T12:58:46","slug":"citb-workers-petition-scottish-construction-skills","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/?p=15151","title":{"rendered":"Save CITB training call"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"fb-root\"><\/div>\n<p>Members of Unite employed by the Construction Industry Training Boards (CITB) have launched a petition to reverse a decision which would end unique construction skills training in Scotland.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>As part of the CITB\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s controversial business plans, the organisation is set to withdraw from directly providing specialist construction training and is undertaking an outsourcing exercise to seek a private provider to provide this training.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>As a result of the CITB\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s plans, the jobs of 100 workers at the organisation\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s National Construction College in Inchinnan in Renfrewshire, are in distinct jeopardy. Even if a private provider was willing to undertake the specialist training provided by the CITB, there is no guarantee that they would maintain the current site.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>If a private provider cannot be found then it would mean that there would be no provision for critical specialist training in many trades in Scotland, including scaffolding and ceiling fixing.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The petition is designed to put pressure on Peter Leuner the new chair of the CITB, who is considered to be a champion of construction apprenticeships.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\u00e2\u20ac\u015bThe CITB\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s decision to divest themselves of training has enormous implications,&#8221; said Unite regional officer David McGurk. &#8220;Selling the National Construction College at Inchinnan to a private provider could signal the end of apprentice training in specialist trades in Scotland. A private provider will simply not be willing or able to absorb potential financial losses.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\u00e2\u20ac\u015bThe Inchinnan facility is a high value, permanently full training centre that provides quality training for the construction industry in Scotland,&#8221; he added.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\u00e2\u20ac\u015bThe decision to sell off Inchinnan, is a disservice to industry and the employers who the CITB are supposed to represent.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\u00e2\u20ac\u015bThe proposed sell-off has no tangible benefit for anyone,&#8221; McGurk went on to say.\u00c2\u00a0&#8220;Peter Lauener the new CITB chair needs to get a grip of his organisation, reverse the process and save the CITB\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s specialist training in Scotland.\u00e2\u20ac\u0165<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Unite has previously described the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.unitetheunion.org\/how-we-help\/listofregions\/scotland\/latestnews\/unite-scotland-blasts-citb-sell-off-as-outsourcing-fire-sale\/\">CITB\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s plans as a fire sale<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Members of Unite employed by the Construction Industry Training Boards (CITB) have launched a petition to reverse a decision which would end unique construction skills training in Scotland. &nbsp; As part of the CITB\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s controversial business plans, the organisation is set to withdraw from directly providing specialist construction training and is undertaking an outsourcing exercise [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":6673,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[260,924,167,35],"wps_subtitle":"CITB workers launch petition to save construction skills training","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15151"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=15151"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15151\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26218,"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15151\/revisions\/26218"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/6673"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15151"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15151"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15151"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}