Red flags over Broadgate: BIG workers protest planned mass lay-offs after major contract scrapped

By Daniel Gayne2026-02-05T00:01:00

Source: Daniel Gayne

The architects’ union has reported a rapid rise in membership at the Danish practice’s 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

There were red flags over Broadgate on Tuesday as the architectural branch of the UK’s biggest union protested redundancies at the Bjarke Ingels Group.

Membership of the Section of Architectural Workers (SAW), a trade union which is affiliated with Unite the Union, has been rapidly rising within the staff of Bjarke 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.

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