Builders ‘putting workers’ lives at risk’

ROUGE builders are still willing to risk the lives of employees on a daily basis, members of SIPTU’s construction branch told their biannual conference yesterday.

Paul Hansord of SIPTU’s Dublin Construction and Allied Trades branch said building contractors were forcing staff to work to dangerous deadlines which resulted in unnecessary loss of life and injury.

“These are not just statistics but families with real lives and families with wives and children,” he said.