Monthly Archives: March 2012

US Republicans seek to silence whistleblowers

By Rory | Published: 24 March, 2012
Republican lawmakers have indicated it is more important to let employers police themselves on workplace safety than it is to give workers protection when they blow the whistle on unsafe practices. In comments to Daily Labor Report last week, Republican Representative John Kline said his party would reject President Obama’s proposed budget for the Occupational [...]
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Cameron ignores call for a blacklisting public inquiry

By Rory | Published: 22 March, 2012
The prime minister has said the police should investigate police complicity in the blacklisting of trade union and safety activists. The response came in parliament this week after two Labour MPs had called separately for a public inquiry into revelations from the Information Commissioner’s Office that information held by covert blacklisting outfit The Consulting Association [...]
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RMT demands publication of secret ‘RMT File’

By Rory | Published: 8 March, 2012
Rail union RMT has demanded full disclosure of a secret ‘RMT File’ held by blacklisting organisation The Consulting Association. It says to date, the Information Commissioner has only released construction industry files compiled by The Consulting Association. These files, however, include explicit cross references to another ‘RMT File’ which remains unpublished. RMT believes this has [...]
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Police and MI5 linked to blacklist of site workers

By Rory | Published: 8 March, 2012
The police or security services supplied information to a blacklist funded by the country’s major construction firms that has kept thousands of people out of work over the past three decades, the Observer has reported. It says the revelation came from the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO), which believes records that could only have come from [...]
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