Charlie
Well-known member
Another New Member here saying Hi, but what is going on in our great Scaffolding Industry?
I have seen a lot of the posts on here that reflect the apathy of the nation in general. Great Britain has been strangled by thirteen years of New Labour misrule ...... and Scaffolders are taking jobs at ridiculously low rates of pay ..... just to earn a crust!
Agencies are everywhere ..... but what are they paying? Do they pay the correct overtime rates? ...... Exactly. They will try and get good Scaffolders to work for peanuts and expect them to work seven days on the same flat rate! The best that you can achieve in that situation is to try and negotiate a knocker at the weekend, but that shouldn't be necessary .... after 38 hours you are on overtime!
Scaffolders are the elite of the Construction Industry ..... without us there would be no Construction .... so what are we going to do about it?
I have seen a lot of the posts on here that reflect the apathy of the nation in general. Great Britain has been strangled by thirteen years of New Labour misrule ...... and Scaffolders are taking jobs at ridiculously low rates of pay ..... just to earn a crust!
Agencies are everywhere ..... but what are they paying? Do they pay the correct overtime rates? ...... Exactly. They will try and get good Scaffolders to work for peanuts and expect them to work seven days on the same flat rate! The best that you can achieve in that situation is to try and negotiate a knocker at the weekend, but that shouldn't be necessary .... after 38 hours you are on overtime!
Scaffolders are the elite of the Construction Industry ..... without us there would be no Construction .... so what are we going to do about it?