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Blacklisting – latest YouTube video from the Blacklist Support Group.
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LibDems oppose safety rep protection
LibDems in the European Parliament have voted with centre right parties to ensure the failure of a proposal to protect workplace safety reps from blacklisting and victimisation. Last week’s vote in Strasbourg followed a debate on a mid-term review of the European Union’s health and safety strategy. Glenis Willmott MEP, leader of the Labour group [...]
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Top speakers at 29 October BSG AGM
Blacklist Support Group AGM update “One of the worst cases of organised human rights abuse ever in the UK” So said John McDonnell MP in 2009 following the discovery by the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) of the illegal Consulting Association database containing personal sensitive information about 3,200 building workers. The Consulting Association database was being used for decades as [...]
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Blacklisting protest against Balfour Beatty
Blacklist Support Group protest against Balfour Beatty 7am Wednesday 19th October 2011 * Balfour Beatty construction project * Blackfriars Station * London Balfour Beatty is one of the biggest blacklisters in the UK building industry. The firm has a history of sacking workers who raise concerns about health and safety. The Information Commissioner’s Office issued [...]
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Blacklist Support Group AGM, 29 October, London
Blacklist Support Group AGM Saturday 29 October, 11.00am – 3.00pm, Nunn Hall at Institute of Education, Euston, London This is not intended to be an event where lots of people make very similar long speeches from the top table about how terrible blacklisting is and how it needs to be stamped out. The intention is [...]
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TUC fringe meeting, 13 September, London
TUC Fringe Meeting 13th September 2011 – 6.30pm to 8.30pm Room 2B University of London Union (ULU) Malet Street, Euston Speakers from: Blacklist Support Group – representing workers blacklisted by multi-national building firms for their trade union activities UNITE Construction rank & file – electricians campaign against the 35% pay cut proposed by major employers [...]
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Judge backs worker against ‘blacklisting’ Carillion
Former site worker Dave Smith has won the latest stage of his legal battle against construction multinational Carillion. Mr Smith told a Central London Employment Tribunal this week he was victimised by the construction giant after becoming a trade union safety rep during the 1990s. Papers submitted to the employment tribunal present evidence that senior managers [...]
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PROTEST against Carillion Blacklisting
Dave Smith v Carillion 9am Tuesday 30th August 2011 Central London Employment Tribunal Kingsway Holborn London On 30 – 31 August 2011 in the Central London Employment Tribunal, the UK construction industry will stand accused of systematically breaching the human rights of thousands of building workers Dave Smith v Carillion Plc is a test case [...]
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Blacklisted reps in European breakthrough
UK anti-blacklisting campaigners believe a Europe-wide law banning the practice has moved a step closer, after a top level meeting with European officials and politicians. A delegation of blacklisted trade unionists and safety representatives from the Blacklist Support Group held private talks in Brussels last week with EU commissioner for employment, social affairs and inclusion [...]
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Law fails blacklisted construction worker