{"id":266,"date":"2009-10-21T11:30:52","date_gmt":"2009-10-21T10:30:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hazards.org\/blacklistblog\/?p=266"},"modified":"2009-10-21T11:30:52","modified_gmt":"2009-10-21T10:30:52","slug":"push-to-strengthen-blacklist-law","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hazards.org\/blacklistblog\/2009\/10\/21\/push-to-strengthen-blacklist-law\/","title":{"rendered":"Push to strengthen blacklist law"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Construction union <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ucatt.info\/content\/view\/765\/30\/\">UCATT<\/a> has enlisted the help of a group of Labour MPs in a bid to pressure the government to strengthen the draft regulations designed to outlaw blacklisting. The MPs agreed to take this action at the 20 October parliamentary launch of \u2018Ruined Lives\u2019, a UCATT-commissioned academic report which argues the proposed anti-blacklisting regulations are inadequate.<\/p>\n<p>Report author Professor Keith said the draft regulations were \u201chopeless and inadequate\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>UCATT general secretary Alan Ritchie told the launch how union health and safety reps were especially targeted by companies. He said it was common for them to be laid off soon after taking on the safety rep role, with alternative work subsequently being hard to obtain. He said: \u201cThe regulations don\u2019t just have to be watertight, they have to be airtight so the employers can\u2019t wriggle out of them.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>UCATT says the government is due to publish the anti-blacklisting regulations before Christmas \u2013 trade paper <a href=\"http:\/\/www.contractjournal.com\/Articles\/2009\/10\/14\/72612\/mandelson-urged-to-strengthen-blacklist-law.html\">Contract Journal<\/a> reported on 14 October \u201cthe new regulations are due to be published as a Statutory Instrument within the next few days\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>The Labour MPs backing the campaign to strengthen the law have agreed to ask parliamentary questions, lobby the Department for Business (BIS) and use parliamentary scrutiny methods in order to ensure that the regulations are strengthened. An <a href=\"http:\/\/edmi.parliament.uk\/EDMi\/EDMDetails.aspx?EDMID=39324&amp;SESSION=899\">early day motion<\/a> tabled by Mick Clapham MP seeks MPs backing for the UCATT campaign.<\/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>Construction union UCATT has enlisted the help of a group of Labour MPs in a bid to pressure the government to strengthen the draft regulations designed to outlaw blacklisting. The MPs agreed to take this action at the 20 October parliamentary launch of \u2018Ruined Lives\u2019, a UCATT-commissioned academic report which argues the proposed anti-blacklisting regulations &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.hazards.org\/blacklistblog\/2009\/10\/21\/push-to-strengthen-blacklist-law\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Push to strengthen blacklist law&#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":[],"class_list":["post-266","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hazards.org\/blacklistblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/266","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=266"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.hazards.org\/blacklistblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/266\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":267,"href":"https:\/\/www.hazards.org\/blacklistblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/266\/revisions\/267"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hazards.org\/blacklistblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=266"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hazards.org\/blacklistblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=266"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hazards.org\/blacklistblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=266"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}