The workers, who won the maximum protected award, were employed on an outsourced maintenance and repairs contract for One Vision, the principal housing association in Sefton on Merseyside.
Jimmy Woods, the union’s acting regional secretary, said: “This is a important victory for the workers who were dismissed in the most callous manner through no fault of their own. Companies cannot ignore their legal responsibilities to their workforce and hope to get away with it.”
The Sefton tribunal is the first case to reach the courts following the collapse of Connaught. UCATT has a series of other cases which will be heard later this year.
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