Readers who have been following the saga of the saga of the GMB’s industrial campaign against Carillion at Swindon’s Great Western Hospital will know that the company failed to act for years while supervisors shook down staff for gold and cash in exchange for their employment rights. Readers will also know that Carillion have been involved in the unlawful blacklisting of individuals in the construction industry, and that the blacklist also included environmental activists. In response to the exposure of the extortion by supervisors, Carillion’s response was to discipline ten whistle-blowers; and Carillion’s report included institutionaly racist language claiming that the mainly South Asian staff were difficult to manage becasue they were overly emotional and given to crying.
It is therefore extraordinary that the Guardian has shortlisted Carillion for a sustainable business award.
You might want to contact the judges via twitter, and send them the following links, and seek clarification why they think it appropriate to honour a company that failed to properly investigate claims of extortion by supervisors for years, that exhibits institutional racism, that participated in an unlawful blacklist and victimises whistle blowers.
Guardian article on Carillion and blacklisting (copy this URL to twitter: http://tinyurl.com/buklbu4 )
Guardian article on racial bias and discrimination (copy this URL to twitter: http://tinyurl.com/cgq2ykz )
Guardian article on blacklisting of environmental activists (copy this URL to twitter: http://tinyurl.com/cfr4tpf )
Left Futures article on Carillion victimizing whistle blowers (copy this URL to twitter: http://tinyurl.com/d2fm5sa )
This is The Guardian Sustainable Business twitter account: @GuardianSustBiz
and these are the judges:
Name | Company | Title | |
Will Andrews Tipper | Green Alliance | Head of Sustainable Business | @AndrewsTipper |
Hayley Baines-Buffery | BioRegional | Head of Sustainable Business | @BioRegional |
Mike Burton | AECOM | Director, Building Engineering | @AECOM |
Jo Confino | The Guardian | Executive Editor and Chair, Guardian Sustainable Business | @joconfino |
Polly Courtice | University of Cambridge | Director Programme for Sustainability Leadership | @cpsl_cambridge |
Simon Cox | Prologis | Vice President Project Management and UK Sustainability Officer | @Prologis |
Diane Coyle | Managing Director | Enlightenment Economics | @diane1859 |
Paul Foster | Senior Director, Creative Content | Getty Images | @GettyImages |
Liz Goodwin | CEO | WRAP | |
Lynda Gratton | Professor | Management Practice, London Business School | @lyndagratton |
David Grayson | Chair of Corporate Responsibility and Director of the Doughty Centre for Corporate Responsibility | Cranfield | @DoughtyCentre |
Oliver Greenfield | Convenor | Green Economy Coalition | @GECoalition |
Andrew Horton | Trading Director | Oxfam GB | |
Stephen Howard | Chief Executive | Business in the Community | @BITC1 |
Paul King | Chief Executive | UK Green Building Council | @UKGBC |
Professor Malcolm Kirkup | Director | The One Planet MBA, University of Exeter Business School | @OPMBA |
Peggy Liu | Chairperson | JUCCCE | @JUCCCE |
Karin Mortensen Laljani | Managing Director | Corporate Citizenship | @CCitizenship |
David North | Executive Director | Sustainable Consumption Institute | @ManchesterSCI |
David Nussbaum | Chief Executive | WWF-UK | @DavidNussbaum1, @wwf_uk |
Andrew Page | Partner | Foresight Group | @ForesightGroup |
Jonathon Porritt | Co-founder | Forum for the Future | @Forum4theFuture |
Trewin Restorick | CEO | Global Action Plan | @TrewinR, @globalactplan |
George Richards | Sales and Marketing Manager | JRP Solutions | @JRPsolutions |
John Sauven | Executive Director | Greenpeace UK | @GreenpeaceUK, @sauvenjohn |
Paul Simpson | CEO | Carbon Disclosure Project | @CDP |
Peter Skinner | Managing Director | Environment and Planning Sector, URS | @URSCorp |
Richard Spencer | Head of Sustainability | ICAEW | @ICAEW @Sustainable_RS |
Robert Spencer | Business Line Director | Sustainability, URS | @URSCorp |
Solitaire Townsend | CEO | Futerra | @GreenSolitaire |
Paula Tsung | Head of Workplace and Sustainability | Guardian News and Media | |
Sally Uren | Deputy Chief Executive | Forum for the Future | @sallyuren, @Forum4theFuture |
Nigel Winser | Executive Vice President | Earthwatch | @NigelWinser |
Martin Wright | Editor-in-Chief | Green Futures | @GreenFutures |