11th August 2005, 07:57 PM
Big consortium jobs that I've seen don't push wages up at all. In fact the opposite occurred, with PO's working as supervisors and supervisors working as diggers. The job just got done with very inexperienced staff, who no doubt benefitted enormously. Everyone else got excluded or shafted. A similar situation is developing right now in York with the cheapest and least skilled unit work force gaining control of a big project. If I want to work on this lovely site I'm going to have to take an approx. ?6000 p.a. wage cut. More likely I'll be exiled to watching brief land while new diggers will get the site of their careers (and may not realize it!)