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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.
