Chairman of the CSCS, Trevor Walker resigned this week, to be replaced by former Labour MP Michael Clapham, after a four month leadership stand-off.
Building magazine reported that Walker stepped down on Tuesday after a crisis meeting between the four employers and three unions that run the Construction Skills Certification Scheme- a skills accreditation scheme used by over 1.7M workers in the UK. Walker had only survived an earlier no-confidence vote in the summer after using his board vote to tie a ballot and save himself.
Michael Clapham, Labour MP for Barnsley West and Penistone until April last year has a union background and is a former officer of the National Union of Mineworkers. Construction News stated that he was nominated by the union owners of CSCS and accepted by the employers- they are understood to have sought assurances that the relationship with CITB-Construction Skills, which administers the scheme, will be repaired.
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