{"id":19715,"date":"2019-12-19T17:03:42","date_gmt":"2019-12-19T17:03:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/unitelive.org\/?p=19715"},"modified":"2020-11-12T12:54:49","modified_gmt":"2020-11-12T12:54:49","slug":"carillions-toxic-legacy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/?p=19715","title":{"rendered":"\u00e2\u20ac\u0098Carillion\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s toxic legacy\u00e2\u20ac\u2122"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"fb-root\"><\/div>\n<p>Unite has blamed the government\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s failure to tackle \u00e2\u20ac\u0098Carillion\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s toxic legacy\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 for further delays to the construction of the new Liverpool Royal Hospital.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Responding to the new from the Liverpool Hospitals NHS Trust that the new Liverpool Royal will cost an extra \u00c2\u0141300 million and will not be completed until 2022, Unite called for corporate governance reforms to prevent the \u00e2\u20ac\u0098bandit capitalism\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 that led to the collapse of <a href=\"http:\/\/Unitelive.org\/tag\/carillion\">Carillion<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The hospital was supposed to be completed in 2017 and the additional costs, which will go towards fixing numerous defects, mean the project has doubled in price.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The government have \u00e2\u20ac\u0098completely let down\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 patients and staff who have been \u00e2\u20ac\u0098left stranded in a substandard hospital\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 that is located next door, as well as construction workers who lost their earnings and jobs when Carillion imploded in 2018, Unite said.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Unite regional officer Derek Jones said,\u00c2\u00a0\u00e2\u20ac\u015bThe public and the Royal\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s workforce have been completely let down by the government\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s abject failure to get to grips with the Carillion disaster and its aftermath.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\u00e2\u20ac\u015bThe government appointed Carillion to build the hospital, neglected to monitor the project\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s progress and failed to ensure there was no delay in getting it built once the firm went under. Because of this, staff and patients will now have to spend three more winters in a building that is not fit for purpose.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\u00e2\u20ac\u015bThe Royal is completely unsuited to meeting the needs of patients, who only continue to receive excellent care because the hospital\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s exemplary staff manage to find ways to work around the crumbling infrastructure.\u00e2\u20ac\u0165<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Unite regional secretary Ritchie James said the delays expose the price that the public and industry have had to pay for the government\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s complicity in enabling \u00e2\u20ac\u015bCarillion\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s greedy, irresponsible and destructive business practices\u00e2\u20ac\u0165.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>He added, \u00e2\u20ac\u015bCarillion\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s collapse led to huge financial losses for construction subcontractors and their workers, while Liverpool Royal patients and staff have been left stranded in a sub-standard hospital.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\u00e2\u20ac\u015bIt is clear from the mounting costs and added delays to the new Royal, that Carillion\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s toxic legacy will continue well into the future, even as those who are responsible still have not faced justice.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\u00e2\u20ac\u015bThe government cannot carry on ignoring this issue. Ministers must take action to reform company law to stop similar collapses in the future and create effective regulators to prevent firm\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s creating chaos through <a href=\"https:\/\/unitetheunion.org\/campaigns\/end-bandit-capitalism\/\">bandit capitalism<\/a>.\u00e2\u20ac\u0165<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Unite has blamed the government\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s failure to tackle \u00e2\u20ac\u0098Carillion\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s toxic legacy\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 for further delays to the construction of the new Liverpool Royal Hospital.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":14453,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[855,29,647],"wps_subtitle":"Liverpool Royal Hospital construction delay down to govt\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s failure to contain Carillion fallout","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19715"}],"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=19715"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19715\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24800,"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19715\/revisions\/24800"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/14453"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=19715"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=19715"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=19715"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}