{"id":400,"date":"2010-04-26T04:46:39","date_gmt":"2010-04-26T03:46:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hazards.org\/blacklistblog\/?p=400"},"modified":"2010-04-26T08:58:57","modified_gmt":"2010-04-26T07:58:57","slug":"site-firms-scoop-blacklisting-awards","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hazards.org\/blacklistblog\/2010\/04\/26\/site-firms-scoop-blacklisting-awards\/","title":{"rendered":"Site firms scoop blacklisting awards"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mceTemp\">\n<figure id=\"attachment_404\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-404\" style=\"width: 518px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a rel=\"attachment wp-att-404\" href=\"http:\/\/www.hazards.org\/blacklistblog\/2010\/04\/26\/site-firms-scoop-blacklisting-awards\/bsg-and-black-ties-2\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-404 \" title=\"BSG and black ties. Photo: Mick Holder\" src=\"http:\/\/www.hazards.org\/blacklistblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/BSG-and-black-ties1-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"BAD TASTE Blacklisted construction workers reminded construction industry black tie revellers at the UK National Building Awards 2010 of their distasteful habits.\" width=\"518\" height=\"325\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-404\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">BAD TASTE Blacklisted construction workers reminded construction industry black tie revellers at the UK National Building Awards 2010 of their distasteful habits.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Campaigners from the Blacklist Support Group provided some extra entertainment at the swish National Building Awards 2010 dinner at London\u2019s Grosvenor House Hotel.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>The campaign presented its own alternative Blacklister of the Year Awards as the construction industry revellers assembled for the 22 April black tie event.<\/p>\n<p>Balfour Beatty won the category for \u201cMost Enforcement Notices Issued by the Information Commissioner,\u201d with a soaraway 14 notices.<\/p>\n<p>Skanska headed the \u201cLargest Blacklisting Invoice\u201d category, with \u00a328,123 in one year, pipping Sir Robert McAlpine\u2019s \u00a326,842 in payments to covert blacklisting group The Consulting Association.<\/p>\n<p>The former head of the association, Ian Kerr, bagged the \u201cLifetime Achievement Award.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>A special category, the \u201cHear No Evil See No Evil Speak No Evil Award\u201d, went to Skanska for its three month internal blacklisting investigation that found no-one in management did anything to merit even a verbal warning.<\/p>\n<p>Safety watchdog the Health and Safety Executive (HSE) received an honourable mention in this category.<\/p>\n<p>Law professor Keith Ewing of Kings College London welcomed the awards.<strong><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>He said: \u201cBlacklister of the Year is an important initiative to remind those attending the National Building Awards of the scandal that hangs over their industry.\u00a0 <strong><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhile the fat cats purr with delight at their lavish black tie banquet in the Grosvenor House Hotel, they need to be confronted &#8211; in what is an era of austerity for everyone else &#8211; about their role in ruining the lives of thousands of British construction workers.\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>Campaigners from the Blacklist Support Group provided some extra entertainment at the swish National Building Awards 2010 dinner at London\u2019s Grosvenor House Hotel. The campaign presented its own alternative Blacklister of the Year Awards as the construction industry revellers assembled for the 22 April black tie event. Balfour Beatty won the category for \u201cMost Enforcement &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.hazards.org\/blacklistblog\/2010\/04\/26\/site-firms-scoop-blacklisting-awards\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Site firms scoop blacklisting awards&#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":[42,7,51,52,50,9,49],"class_list":["post-400","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-balfour-beatty","tag-blacklist-support-group","tag-health-and-safety-executive","tag-hse","tag-sir-robert-mcalpine","tag-skanska","tag-uk"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hazards.org\/blacklistblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/400","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=400"}],"version-history":[{"count":17,"href":"https:\/\/www.hazards.org\/blacklistblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/400\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":419,"href":"https:\/\/www.hazards.org\/blacklistblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/400\/revisions\/419"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hazards.org\/blacklistblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=400"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hazards.org\/blacklistblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=400"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hazards.org\/blacklistblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=400"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}