Today saw publication of the interim parliamentary report on blacklisting by the Scottish Select Affairs Committee. In its statement released today, the committee says that the major construction firms that established and funded a systematic blacklist of construction industry workers appear to be continuing to avoid taking full responsibility for their actions. The report is […]
Posts Tagged ‘Blacklisting’
Ten questions about blacklisting industrial workers we need a public inquiry to answer
Mar 26th, 2013 by Michael Meacher.The blacklisted workers’ case against McAlpine will soon begin in the High Court. But even before that we need a commitment that a Labour Government will institute a public inquiry into the blacklisting scandal, arguably the worst human rights abuse against workers since the war which robbed thousands of them of a job for 20 […]
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Spooks face complaint over links to blacklisting, as union demands full investigation
Mar 5th, 2013 by John Millington.Blacklisted workers have lodged a formal complaint to the security services watchdog, calling for an investigation about potential involvement of MI5, the Government Communications HQ and other sections of the security services over the recent Consulting Association blacklisting scandal. The Investigatory Powers Tribunal which received the complaint on 21 February was lodged by Sarah McSherry […]
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Legal set back for Carillion over blacklisting
Feb 27th, 2013 by Andy Newman.The construction and services giant Carillion received a blow yesterday at the Employment Appeal Tribunal when Mr Justice Singh found that the case of blacklisted UCATT safety rep, Dave Smith, raised questions of wide public significance and therefore allowed an appeal in a two day contested hearing probably in spring or early summer. Frank Morris, […]
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Blacklisting: the civil liberties scandal that grows and grows
Feb 26th, 2013 by Andy Newman.Saturday’s Daily Mirror reported the shocking fact that environmental campaigners have been listed alongside construction workers on the notorious blacklist illegally maintained by the Consulting Association, on behalf of big building firms like Carillion, Balfour Beatty and MacAlpines. Eco-warrior Tamsin Omond was kept under surveillance and put on a scandalous construction blacklist alongside thousands of workers. […]
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Blacklisting: out of the darkness, cometh the light
Feb 9th, 2013 by John Millington.The classic saying from philosopher Karl Marx: “Workers have nothing to lose, except their chains” perhaps applies to blacklisted workers more than any other. Thursday night saw an act of civil-disobedience in the pouring rain where blacklisted workers stopped traffic in the Oxford Circus area of London for nearly 2 hours. The spectacle caused further […]
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Blacklisters should be barred from public contracts
Jan 24th, 2013 by Ian Lavery.Ian Lavery’s speech in parliament on blacklisting (abridged from Hansard) The blacklisting of trade unionists is an unfair and insidious practice that involves the systematic compilation of information about individual trade unionists by their employers and recruiters in order to discriminate against them, although not just because they are members of trade unions. There are […]
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Blacklisting is about profit, not bosses being nasty
Jan 23rd, 2013 by John Millington.The publicity surrounding blacklisting and calls for a government inquiry is being welcomed by blacklisted workers and their families with Labour MP Chuka Umunna leading the charge in parliament. MP after MP spoke about constituents contacting them about being blacklisted and how it has ruined their lives. Birmingham MP Jack Dromey called for construction companies to be […]
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Blacklisting – the worst human rights abuse against British workers since the war
Jan 14th, 2013 by Michael Meacher.The lodging of legal documents in the High Court in this last week claiming blacklisting by McAlpine and other big building companies exposes, if the charges are proven, just how debased and corrupted employments rights have become over this last half centuryin the UK, and particularly under the influence of neoliberal capitalism in the last […]
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Blacklisting is worst human rights abuse against workers in UK since the war
Jan 10th, 2013 by Michael Meacher.The lodging of legal documents in the High Court in this last week claiming blacklisting by McAlpine and other big building companies exposes, if the charges are proven, just how debased and corrupted employments rights have become over this last half centuryin the UK, and particularly under the influence of neoliberal capitalism in the last 3 decades.
