{"id":15898,"date":"2018-08-08T16:24:45","date_gmt":"2018-08-08T15:24:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/unitelive.org\/?p=15898"},"modified":"2020-11-12T12:58:18","modified_gmt":"2020-11-12T12:58:18","slug":"crawley-council-unite-construction-charter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/?p=15898","title":{"rendered":"Backing construction workers"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"fb-root\"><\/div>\n<p>Crawley Council is giving its backing to a Unite Construction Charter that seeks to ensure that conditions for workers on construction projects under local authority control in Crawley meet the highest standards.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Peter Lamb,\u00c2\u00a0leader of the council has committed to back the Charter\u00c2\u00a0and has included the commitment in the Labour council\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s manifesto.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The Charter commits to working with Unite in order to achieve the highest standards in respect of direct employment status, health &amp; safety, standards of work, apprenticeship training and the implementation of appropriate nationally agreed terms and conditions of employment.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Everyone has the right to a safe working environment and the conditions set out in Unite&#8217;s Construction Charter should ensure construction workers are treated fairly and safely on council projects. I don&#8217;t see this as setting an example, it&#8217;s really the least that any employer should do,&#8221; said Peter Lamb, Leader of Crawley Council.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\u00e2\u20ac\u015bThe Council has ambitious plans to invest in affordable homes and to regenerate the town centre as part of a wider economic development and regeneration programme,&#8221; he added. &#8220;The Charter will cover important local authority construction projects including a range of residential, commercial and public realm improvements.\u00e2\u20ac\u0165<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\u00e2\u20ac\u015bWe welcome Crawley Council\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s significant commitment to construction workers,&#8221; said Unite regional secretary for the South East Ian Woodland. &#8220;Unite\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Construction Charter will help local workers to operate in a safe environment on construction sites and to ensure they can raise health and safety issues without fear.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\u00e2\u20ac\u015bThe council is involved in a number of important projects and workers on those projects will be able to work under the highest standards.\u00e2\u20ac\u0165<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Crawley Council is giving its backing to a Unite Construction Charter that seeks to ensure that conditions for workers on construction projects under local authority control in Crawley meet the highest standards. &nbsp; Peter Lamb,\u00c2\u00a0leader of the council has committed to back the Charter\u00c2\u00a0and has included the commitment in the Labour council\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s manifesto. &nbsp; The [&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":[167,349],"wps_subtitle":"Crawley Council makes significant commitment to local construction workers","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15898"}],"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=15898"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15898\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25983,"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15898\/revisions\/25983"}],"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=15898"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15898"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15898"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}