{"id":741970,"date":"2026-02-04T15:01:11","date_gmt":"2026-02-04T15:01:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/741970\/"},"modified":"2026-02-04T15:01:11","modified_gmt":"2026-02-04T15:01:11","slug":"red-flags-over-broadgate-big-workers-protest-planned-mass-lay-offs-after-major-contract-scrapped-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/741970\/","title":{"rendered":"Red flags over Broadgate: BIG workers protest planned mass lay-offs after major contract scrapped | News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"byline meta\">By <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bdonline.co.uk\/daniel-gayne\/4503321.bio\" rel=\"author noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Daniel Gayne<\/a>2026-02-04T12:30:00<\/p>\n<p>        <img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"IMG_3872\" loading=\"eager\"  src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/2023493_img_3872_354202_crop.jpg\"  width=\"100\" height=\"67\" class=\"lazyloaded\"\/><\/p>\n<p>The architects\u2019 union has reported a rapid rise in membership at the Danish practice\u2019s London office amid anger at handling of a mass redundancy process. Daniel Gayne attended their protest in the City of London this week to find out more<\/p>\n<p>There were red flags over Broadgate yesterday as the architectural branch of the UK\u2019s biggest union protested redundancies at the Bjarke Ingels Group.<\/p>\n<p>Membership of\u00a0the Section of Architectural Workers (SAW), a trade union which is affiliated with Unite the Union, has been rapidly rising within the staff of\u00a0Bjarke Ingels Group (BIG) since the end of last year, when the practice announced a round of redundancies after the cancellation of a major contract in late November.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"By Daniel Gayne2026-02-04T12:30:00 The architects\u2019 union has reported a rapid rise in membership at the Danish practice\u2019s London&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":741971,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3939],"tags":[4021,4020,4022,77,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-741970","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-arts-and-design","8":"tag-arts","9":"tag-arts-and-design","10":"tag-design","11":"tag-entertainment","12":"tag-uk","13":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/116012966533468104","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/741970","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=741970"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/741970\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/741971"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=741970"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=741970"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=741970"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}