Many companies do not chose local workforce as the situation is too difficults ie lack of trained staff or a unwilling population to give 100% doing physical work.

In the case of Telford this could be why construction companies choose workforces from elsewhere

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Andy do not subscribe to this myth that migrants are taking your jobs etc etc the ones here are doing jobs that lets face the brit was to lazy to do.I was told years ago the IT work place was going down pay wise as most brits want a warm office job so school leavers were all doing IT courses nothing to do with migrants .
Building industry again nothing to do with migrants no houses are being built etc as no one is buying.
Brits buy from abroad becouse it is cheaper and what ever we made be it cars rtc was rubbish or the workers went on strike .
many on the dole do not want work.

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If there in no work there is no work speaking as a small employer etc what else is an employer to say if there is no work for you other than thank you and pay you up.
As a foot note to migrant workers

Last year, 207,000 British citizens – one every three minutes – left the country

Many of these went to australia,canada,france,philipines,usa, many will be seeking work in these countries do we then order them back here? if we do they will then take the jobs so whats the differance??

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A quick response from a site manager on one of the larger sites in Telford:
1) We do have a clause requiring local firms be used where possible.
2) We take this seriously and try where available and economic to use local companies
3) The local area must include the immediate region not just the town – ie wolverhampton, Shrops, Staffs and Cheshire \ Wrexham etc – basically anywhere within a 1 hour drive.
4) Our managers live within these travelling limits as well
5) When we started there were few people with the training we needed on the market as the housebuilders had them all busy. Now we get many applications from suitable townfolk but have no vacancies.
5)You need a mix of projects to make the best use of the skills – ie the finishing trades are not needed on a new project. At the moment, many sites are in the closing stages so need less of the heavy trades but more electricians and flooring / paving trades.
6) Despite what I heard on the radio this morning, do not expect a suddden eruption of admin \ support staff vacancies in Construction – we do not make enough money to have secretaries or filing clerks all over the place – most site managers have to do this role themselves.

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people people people we are all british here, doesnt matter if your geordie or scouse, you are the same, its sad to see folk turning on our italian and polish cousins, but these fellow english are your brothers, they will follow the work and it will all benefit the NATIONAL if not local economy, come on

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tory boy and jonty
i will treat your comments,with the comtempt they deserve

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As one who actually employs people, the British, Irish and Polish are equally hard working. UK and Irish are preferred as they speak English and so we have fewer communication issues but sometimes, the Polish have a strangle hold on certain jobs. We also sometimes use people of sikh and other asian backgrounds although generally they are UK resident and again these are hard working and on full UK pay and conditions. Staff wise, we would consider anybody with relevant qualification, experience and the right to work in the UK but they must be English speakers. Believe it or not, there is still a skills shortage in Construction Management due to its poor pay, poor welfare (we still worked last week in the snow) and long hours – we start at 48 hours and work up.

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