Workers walk-off Interserve job following payment row

Subcontractors have downed tools on a major London fit-out job following a row over late payment.

The Enquirer understands that around 20 workers from an Essex M&E contractor walked-off the job yesterday where Interserve company Paragon is the main contractor.

They have also been staging protests at the site gates .

The £4m job is to fit-out The Point office building in Paddington for client BT.

Union sources said the Essex M&E specialist was working for another subcontractor and had been knocked for a payment due last week.

Bosses at the firm decided to pull their team from the site in a bid to get their cash.

Unite London region official Harry Cowap said: “It’s shaming that this sort of thing is still going on and that companies and workers are forced to protest at the gates to get money they have worked hard for.

“We are talking massive companies involved in this job with BT the client and Interserve’s Paragon the main contractor.

“No-one seems to be really sure who is holding up the payments in the supply chain.

“But my members and the company they work for don’t care – they just want to get paid.”

Interserve has been contacted for a comment.

from Construction Enquirer http://www.constructionenquirer.com/2017/11/01/workers-walk-off-interserve-job-following-payment-row/

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