{"id":146,"date":"2009-08-06T05:34:18","date_gmt":"2009-08-06T04:34:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hazards.org\/blacklistblog\/?p=146"},"modified":"2009-08-06T16:46:46","modified_gmt":"2009-08-06T15:46:46","slug":"britain-workers-unite-against-construction-blacklist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hazards.org\/blacklistblog\/2009\/08\/06\/britain-workers-unite-against-construction-blacklist\/","title":{"rendered":"Britain: Workers unite against construction blacklist"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-150\" title=\"organise\" src=\"http:\/\/www.hazards.org\/blacklistblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/08\/organise3.jpg\" alt=\"organise\" width=\"150\" height=\"212\" \/>A new support group for blacklisted construction workers has pledged to continue its campaign against the practice. Dave Smith, 44, who is part of the new Blacklist Support Group said: \u201cOur agenda now is to keep this issue live, to make sure that big companies are not allowed to flout the law.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He added: \u201cBuilding workers have now agreed to set up their own support group after we met with John McDonnell in the House of Commons. Many people on the list are now taking actions and we will be putting pressure on politicians to put through new legislation so this can\u2019t happen again.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Smith told the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.irishpost.ie\/tabId\/550\/itemId\/4732\/Workers-unite-against-construction-blacklist.aspx\">Irish Post<\/a>: \u201cThis is still going on today. And if you can\u2019t complain about the most basic rights, then there is a problem. Some people have had their lives destroyed by this blacklist and we see what we\u2019re doing now as equality for all building workers.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The group has also said they plan to investigate the prospects of a potential class-action civil claim and human rights cases as well as \u201cthe exposing the illegal practices of the major construction firms involved in blacklisting\u201d.<\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A new support group for blacklisted construction workers has pledged to continue its campaign against the practice. Dave Smith, 44, who is part of the new Blacklist Support Group said: \u201cOur agenda now is to keep this issue live, to make sure that big companies are not allowed to flout the law.\u201d He added: \u201cBuilding &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.hazards.org\/blacklistblog\/2009\/08\/06\/britain-workers-unite-against-construction-blacklist\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Britain: Workers unite against construction blacklist&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p><!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[7],"class_list":["post-146","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-blacklist-support-group"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hazards.org\/blacklistblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/146","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hazards.org\/blacklistblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hazards.org\/blacklistblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hazards.org\/blacklistblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hazards.org\/blacklistblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=146"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.hazards.org\/blacklistblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/146\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":155,"href":"https:\/\/www.hazards.org\/blacklistblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/146\/revisions\/155"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hazards.org\/blacklistblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=146"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hazards.org\/blacklistblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=146"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hazards.org\/blacklistblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=146"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}