{"id":354,"date":"2009-12-16T10:56:04","date_gmt":"2009-12-16T09:56:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hazards.org\/blacklistblog\/?p=354"},"modified":"2009-12-16T10:57:49","modified_gmt":"2009-12-16T09:57:49","slug":"construction-blacklisting-campaign-goes-global","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hazards.org\/blacklistblog\/2009\/12\/16\/construction-blacklisting-campaign-goes-global\/","title":{"rendered":"Construction blacklisting campaign goes global"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Construction unions from around the world have backed proposals to stamp out blacklisting wherever it occurs. The decision was taken last week by the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bwint.org\/default.asp?Language=EN\">Building and Wood Workers International (BWI),<\/a> the global federation of construction unions, at its conference in Lille, France.<\/p>\n<p>The union representatives supported overwhelmingly an emergency motion proposed by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ucatt.info\/content\/view\/807\/30\/2009\/12\/\">UK site union UCATT<\/a>. UCATT\u2019s motion mandates the leadership of the BWI to \u201cmonitor any developments on blacklisting discovered in BWI affiliate countries\u201d and, \u201cassist unions in taking action where there are suspicions of a blacklist or where blacklisting practices have been confirmed.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Alan Ritchie, general secretary of UCATT, said: \u201cI am delighted that the BWI are committed to stamping out blacklisting wherever it exists. Blacklisting is a disgraceful, deceitful practice which ruins the lives of workers.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>UCATT says some of the companies involved in widespread blacklisting of construction trades unionists in the UK, uncovered by the Information Commissioner in February, are multinationals. It has emerged that many of these companies practice exemplary industrial relations policies in some countries, while undertaking entirely unethical practices in others.<\/p>\n<p>The union says it has been working with construction unions in other countries to highlight abuses and pressure companies at an international level to amend their policies.<\/p>\n<p>Anita Normark, the out-going BWI general secretary, said: \u201cBlacklisting is an obscene anti-union practice used by unscrupulous companies all over the world to deprive workers of their rights and to rob trade unionists of their livelihood. We condemn blacklisting and believe that it should be punishable by law.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Alan Ritchie added: \u201cHaving been at the forefront of the blacklisting scandal in the UK, UCATT are committed to assisting our sister unions in overcoming similar problems in their own countries.\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 unions from around the world have backed proposals to stamp out blacklisting wherever it occurs. The decision was taken last week by the Building and Wood Workers International (BWI), the global federation of construction unions, at its conference in Lille, France. The union representatives supported overwhelmingly an emergency motion proposed by UK site union &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.hazards.org\/blacklistblog\/2009\/12\/16\/construction-blacklisting-campaign-goes-global\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Construction blacklisting campaign goes global&#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":[36,12],"class_list":["post-354","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-bwi","tag-ucatt"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hazards.org\/blacklistblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/354","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=354"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.hazards.org\/blacklistblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/354\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":356,"href":"https:\/\/www.hazards.org\/blacklistblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/354\/revisions\/356"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hazards.org\/blacklistblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=354"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hazards.org\/blacklistblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=354"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hazards.org\/blacklistblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=354"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}