Liverpool One [Paradise Street] Shopping Area [Under Construction]

[Howie]

European Capital of Construction 2008

[Max]

Ah well, I'll only be 22 when this is finished.

[Howie]

Ah well, I'll only be 22 when this is finished.

I'll be happy to see it completed (Howie - fifty years older than the forum)

[Paul D]

They better not start messing with the Pelli tower I wont be happy if they do,that's my favourite part of the whole scheme.

[Kev]

They better not start messing with the Pelli tower I wont be happy if they do,that's my favourite part of the whole scheme.

They might even drive a canal through it, who knows....or put a Waky Warehouse in the exposed dock.

[Paul D]

They might even drive a canal through it, who knows....or put a Waky Warehouse in the exposed dock.

They just better leave it alone.

[scoobysnack]

Of the 700 workers on paradise project.
The most they have had on there is about 350 workers, and the 70% might be from merseyside but they don't live on merseyside, they are just renting the place they are staying.
I was working on the project for a year before me and another 50 lads got layed off last month, out of the 50 lads there were only 4 foreginers.
And last week over 70 lads were layed off and again only 6 were foreigners.
If you go on site you will see for yourself. in my oppinon i find this a health and saftey issue as most can't speak english as i found out when i was asking some of the were they were from all i got for an answer was "ehh ehh"
And very few are from liverpool when i read the article about the 700 workers i like were did they pull that figure from so i just thought i would let you know the real issues abut the project.
and dont even get me started about the raise they renaiged on wich no one has had and been fighting for for over a year.

[Paul D]

Why do you think they opened up the border,to let in cheap foreign labour who will work for peanuts and not complain,it's a disgrace IMO.

[scoobysnack]

the funny thing is the foreigners on site are all on same pay as the very few local lad.

[FKoE]

But the foreigners work harder for longer... Were you on an hourly rate Skoob ?

[scoobysnack]

it worked out weired there were all these kinds of bonuses "incentives" they said, like performance attendance punctuality.
but foreigners work the same hours 7am till 6pm but they didn't work any harder some of the so called joiners on site don't know how to even do a stop-end but they are still there while i'm not

[FKoE]

Maybe then its the fact that foreign workers are un-unionised ?

[scoobysnack]

there is a few that are in the union i think its more pc wich is a shame that we should suffer for what some pc thinks is wright and wrong.

[FKoE]

I know more often than not, a firm from outside the region comes to do a job with their own staff... but todays sites are different.. they are full of EU allsorts..

So why would an employer not prefer local employees ?

[scoobysnack]

well this company has got bad connections with liverpool anyway