Pay talks over construction’s largest industrial agreement have broken up without agreement.
Around 500,000 construction workers are affected by The Construction Industry Joint Council Working Rule Agreement.
The unions involved in the negotiations – UCATT, Unite and GMB – rejected an offer of 3.5% over two years in March, describing it as “derisory”.
UCATT said that construction employers were now seeking a new mandate from their organisations and it hoped that talks could be reconvened “in the next few weeks”.
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