Tuesday 17 April 2018

Output slides again in construction industry ‘underpinned by modern-day slavery’

According to the ONS, February 2018 saw another substantial fall in UK construction output the worst annual fall since 2013. Surveyors report that the housing market is no better, and issue the most downbeat outlook for five years.


It's not a pretty picture, and even less so knowing that UK charities recently reported that:
Modern-day slavery underpins Britain’s construction industry where tens of thousands of European migrants work in dangerous conditions without pay or a proper contract and suffer verbal abuse and beatings
The UK construction industry "is one of the sectors where modern slavery is most likely to be prevalent":
much of the construction industry is still in denial ... and has been lagging behind the food and apparel sectors (in addressing modern slavery)

It’s a problem that has not gone unnoticed by Aggregate Industries. AI’s Head of Sustainability commented:
A sustainable supply chain is critical to the success of our organisation as a whole. How can we be truly sustainable if the businesses that constitute our supply chain aren’t?