After the Carillion collapse, can worker-owned contractors offer a better alternative?

• 15th Feb 2018
• Community Wealth Building

Co-operatives UK

‘The work is so much project-based that there would be a natural team for many service contracts that could form the basis of an employee-owned worker co-operative’

As the fallout from the collapse of outsourcing construction giant Carillion continues, calls have come from the co-operative movement for a mutual alternative.

Ed Mayo, secretary general of Co-operatives UK, says the vacuum left by Carillion leaves scope for the creation of worker co-ops to take up its work.

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