{"id":351,"date":"2009-12-09T14:18:01","date_gmt":"2009-12-09T13:18:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hazards.org\/blacklistblog\/?p=351"},"modified":"2009-12-09T14:19:03","modified_gmt":"2009-12-09T13:19:03","slug":"ucatt-outrage-at-blacklisting-law-flaws","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hazards.org\/blacklistblog\/2009\/12\/09\/ucatt-outrage-at-blacklisting-law-flaws\/","title":{"rendered":"UCATT outrage at blacklisting law flaws"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Construction union <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ucatt.info\/content\/view\/799\/30\/\">UCATT<\/a> fears new regulations designed to outlaw blacklisting contain so many loopholes they will not deter the practice. It says the proposed measures appear \u201cto give the green light to employers to blacklist in certain circumstances.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>UCATT had argued the regulations should not just make it illegal to blacklist for \u201ctrade union activities\u201d but should prevent blacklisting for \u201cactivities associated with trade unions\u201d. It says the government has totally ignored this, which could leave workers vulnerable to blacklisting, with the risk \u201cclearest in the event of workers stopping work due to serious safety concerns.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Alan Ritchie, general secretary of UCATT, said: \u201cNot only are these regulations entirely inadequate, the government\u2019s consultation response favours the continuation of blacklisting in certain circumstances.\u201d The union says the government also failed to address \u201cthe routine blacklisting of safety representatives and campaigners, which was a notable feature of the Consulting Association\u2019s blacklisting practices.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>UCATT is concerned with the government\u2019s statement \u201cdoes not consider that a safety exemption should be created.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>It says it is \u201chighly disturbed\u201d that the failure to specifically protect safety representatives and the allowance of \u201cvetting\u201d for activities other than trade union matters, will mean that these workers will continue to be considered by employers to be \u201ctroublemakers\u201d and \u201cundesirable people\u201d and as such will continue to be blacklisted.<\/p>\n<p>The union says it will be working with sympathetic Labour MPs \u201cto have the regulations radically overhauled.\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>Construction union UCATT fears new regulations designed to outlaw blacklisting contain so many loopholes they will not deter the practice. It says the proposed measures appear \u201cto give the green light to employers to blacklist in certain circumstances.\u201d UCATT had argued the regulations should not just make it illegal to blacklist for \u201ctrade union activities\u201d &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.hazards.org\/blacklistblog\/2009\/12\/09\/ucatt-outrage-at-blacklisting-law-flaws\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;UCATT outrage at blacklisting law flaws&#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":[12],"class_list":["post-351","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-ucatt"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hazards.org\/blacklistblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/351","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=351"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.hazards.org\/blacklistblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/351\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":353,"href":"https:\/\/www.hazards.org\/blacklistblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/351\/revisions\/353"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hazards.org\/blacklistblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=351"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hazards.org\/blacklistblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=351"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hazards.org\/blacklistblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=351"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}