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Members of Unite and GMB protest against worker exploitation in Leeds
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MORE than 100 Yorkshire construction workers protested in Leeds today against the exploitation of employees at the site of a new power station being built outside the city.
Members of Unite and GMB marched around security guards protecting the site to demonstrate and demand it be built under Britain’s national construction agreement — a collective bargaining framework that sets the terms and conditions of employment for the hourly paid engineering construction workforce.
The site is run by Japan-based Hitachi Zosen Inova, which specialises in building power stations that burn waste products to make electricity.
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