{"id":31889,"date":"2025-08-18T09:26:06","date_gmt":"2025-08-18T16:26:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/essential.construction\/news\/work-to-rule-set-to-hit-sellafield-clean-up\/"},"modified":"2025-08-18T09:26:06","modified_gmt":"2025-08-18T16:26:06","slug":"work-to-rule-set-to-hit-sellafield-clean-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/essential.construction\/news\/work-to-rule-set-to-hit-sellafield-clean-up\/","title":{"rendered":"Work-to-rule set to hit Sellafield clean-up"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> [ad_1]<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div id=\"post-500652\">\n\t<!-- .entry-header --><\/p>\n<div class=\"entry-content\">\n<p>The move involves\u00a01,500 construction workers across 34 contractors across disciplines including electricians, joiners, pipe-fitters, riggers, welders, groundworkers and painters.<\/p>\n<p>A recent ballot returned a decisive mandate with well over 90 per cent support for strike and non-strike action.<\/p>\n<p>Unite said employers have refused to pay Sellafield-specific allowances similar to other nuclear projects like Hinkley Point C and Sizewell C<\/p>\n<p>A work-to-rule will see vital clean-up programmes and infrastructure maintenance face disruption.<\/p>\n<p>Unite Regional Officer Ryan Armstrong said: \u201cThis action will inevitably result in work at Sellafield being delayed \u2013 but employers forced our hand by refusing to agree to our reasonable demand to other similar sites. They need to focus on coming up with a viable offer to avoid further escalation.\u201d<\/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<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.constructionenquirer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/userphoto\/3.jpg\" alt=\"Grant Prior\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" class=\"photo\">\t\t<\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><!-- .author-info -->\t\t\t<\/footer>\n<\/div>\n<p>[ad_2]<br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.constructionenquirer.com\/2025\/08\/18\/work-to-rule-set-to-hit-sellafield-construction\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">This article was originally posted at Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[ad_1] The move involves\u00a01,500 construction workers across 34 contractors across disciplines including electricians, joiners, pipe-fitters, riggers, welders, groundworkers and painters. &#8230; <a title=\"Work-to-rule set to hit Sellafield clean-up\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/essential.construction\/news\/work-to-rule-set-to-hit-sellafield-clean-up\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Work-to-rule set to hit Sellafield clean-up\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1089],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-31889","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","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\/31889","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=31889"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/essential.construction\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31889\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/essential.construction\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31889"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/essential.construction\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31889"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/essential.construction\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31889"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}