This week marks the tenth anniversary of Swindon’s Great Western Hospital (GWH) opening in Swindon, one of the earliest Private Finance Initiative (PFI) build and operate hospitals, and only the second opened by Carillion. The anniversary was marked today by a dozen GMB shop stewards protesting outside, highlighting the long running industrial dispute between the union and […]
Posts Tagged ‘Blacklisting’
Ten years of Carillion putting profits before patients at PFI hospital
Dec 3rd, 2012 by Andy Newman.
How the blacklisting scandal operated
Nov 29th, 2012 by Andy Newman.The evidence given to the Scottish Affairs Select Commitee by Ian Kerr, former Chief Officer of the Consulting Association, about the unlawful blacklisting activities of major construction firms has revealed on the dirty underside of bullying bosses, prepared to ruin the lives of thousands of workers. The Daily Mirror reports: A total of 44 building […]
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Blacklisting may go well beyond construction industry
Oct 20th, 2012 by Michael Meacher.The most revealing fact about the construction industry blacklist as the High Court case gets under way against McAlpine and other building firms is that the ICO raid on the Droitwich offices of the Consulting Association (CA) in February 2009 only focused on 5-10% of the materials found there. This was stated recently by the […]
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Liberty joins campaign against blacklisting
Aug 7th, 2012 by Andy Newman.Today’s Independent has a cracking article about the intervention of Liberty into the blacklisting scandal. The civil liberties organisation has written to the Information Commisioner querying the inaction over the illegal use of an unlawfully maintained database by around 40 construction companies to deny employment to people on utterly spurious grounds. Corinna Ferguson, legal officer for […]
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Government blocking inquiry into blacklisting
Jul 30th, 2012 by Michael Meacher.Sir Robert McAlpine, the giant construction firm paid £50m to help build the Olympic stadium and founded by the treasurer to Thatcher’s Tory party, is being sued by 86 blacklisted building workers for £17m in lost earnings. As a result of files seized 3 years ago of the so-called Consulting Association, code name for 40 construction companies who pooled information […]
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Mayday, Mayday! Another police corruption case – blacklisting
Apr 24th, 2012 by Michael Meacher.Theresa May is apparently minded to order a fresh public inquiry into the murder of Stephen Lawrence on the grounds that a secret Scotland Yard report questioning the conduct and integrity of a police chief involved in the Lawrence case was not given to the Macpherson inquiry in 1998. She is anxious that confidence in […]
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Police state exposed over blacklisting
Mar 5th, 2012 by Michael Meacher.The exposure in yesterday’s Observer that the blacklisting of 3,200 construction workers via the building employers’ front body, the so-called Consulting Association which had previously been known about, was actively aided by the police and security services raises alarming questions about the rise of a police state in this country because this is only the […]
