{"id":20379,"date":"2023-08-05T02:44:25","date_gmt":"2023-08-05T09:44:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/essential.construction\/news\/hinkley-point-scaffolders-plan-industrial-action\/"},"modified":"2023-08-05T02:44:27","modified_gmt":"2023-08-05T09:44:27","slug":"hinkley-point-scaffolders-plan-industrial-action","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/essential.construction\/news\/hinkley-point-scaffolders-plan-industrial-action\/","title":{"rendered":"Hinkley Point scaffolders plan industrial action"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/essential.construction\/files\/membership-default-internal\/\" class=\"memberhide\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/essential.construction\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/2023\/01\/20220718_175041000_iOS.jpg\" alt=\"-\"><\/a><br\/><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div id=\"post-477550\">\n\t<!-- .entry-header --><\/p>\n<div class=\"entry-content\">\n<p>The scaffolders working for BYLOR are understood to be angry about pay rates and shift patterns on the site.<\/p>\n<p>One told the <em>Enquirer<\/em>: \u201cThings have been bubbling for a while. We have been wanting the mechanical rate, our travel pay is way below what the MEH Alliance get.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis week we just made stand, it\u2019s not a happy camp here.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The latest workers\u2019 unrest follows a walk-out last week by around 125 mechanical and electrical workers under the MEH Alliance at the site.<\/p>\n<p>The unofficial walkout was triggered by employers\u2019 decision to cut travel allowances by 50%.<\/p>\n<p>Since then it is understood that the MEH Alliance contractors \u2013 Altrad, Balfour Beatty Bailey, Cavendish Nuclear and Doosan Babcock \u2013 have agreed to restore travel allowances.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><!-- .entry-content --><\/p>\n<footer class=\"entry-meta\">\n<div class=\"author-info\">\n<div class=\"sleeve\">\n<div class=\"author-avatar\">\n<div class=\"sleeve\">\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><!-- .author-info -->\t\t\t<\/footer>\n<\/div>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-5143531171910809\"\r\n     crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script>\r\n<!-- News - Bottom -->\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:block\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-5143531171910809\"\r\n     data-ad-slot=\"8320848692\"\r\n     data-ad-format=\"auto\"\r\n     data-full-width-responsive=\"true\"><\/ins>\r\n<script>\r\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.constructionenquirer.com\/2023\/08\/04\/hinkley-point-scaffolders-plan-industrial-action\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">This article was originally posted at Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The scaffolders working for BYLOR are understood to be angry about pay rates and shift patterns on the site. One &#8230; <a title=\"Hinkley Point scaffolders plan industrial action\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/essential.construction\/news\/hinkley-point-scaffolders-plan-industrial-action\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Hinkley Point scaffolders plan industrial action\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":20380,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1089],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20379","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-construction-enquirer","generate-columns","tablet-grid-50","mobile-grid-100","grid-parent","grid-33"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/essential.construction\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20379","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/essential.construction\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/essential.construction\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/essential.construction\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/essential.construction\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20379"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/essential.construction\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20379\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/essential.construction\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/20380"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/essential.construction\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20379"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/essential.construction\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20379"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/essential.construction\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20379"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}