Greedy builders the real culprits – not the hard worker on site
Mr Costello wants BATU “brought into line”. Pity, then, that he can’t get his facts straight .
Output in housebuilding, in which most of BATU’s 9,000 members are employed, has been remarkable over the past six years. That record has been achieved by an advance towards full employment among building workers and by major increases in their productivity. How else could the number of new houses finished per annum have increased from 39,000 in 1997 to 52,600 last year?
