{"id":528,"date":"2012-03-08T11:51:52","date_gmt":"2012-03-08T10:51:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hazards.org\/blacklistblog\/?p=528"},"modified":"2012-03-08T11:52:31","modified_gmt":"2012-03-08T10:52:31","slug":"rmt-demands-publication-of-secret-%e2%80%98rmt-file%e2%80%99","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hazards.org\/blacklistblog\/2012\/03\/08\/rmt-demands-publication-of-secret-%e2%80%98rmt-file%e2%80%99\/","title":{"rendered":"RMT demands publication of secret \u2018RMT File\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.rmt.org.uk\/Templates\/Internal.asp?NodeID=155928&amp;int1stParentNodeID=89732\">Rail union RMT<\/a> has demanded full disclosure of a secret \u2018RMT File\u2019 held by blacklisting organisation The Consulting Association. It says to date, the Information Commissioner has only released construction industry files compiled by The Consulting Association. These files, however, include explicit cross references to another <a href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/business\/2012\/mar\/03\/blacklisted-building-workers-court-hopes?INTCMP=SRCH\">\u2018RMT File\u2019<\/a> which remains unpublished. RMT believes this has been used by employers subscribing to The Consulting Association blacklisting services \u201cto wreck our members working lives in the railway industry.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>RMT general secretary Bob Crow said: \u201cThe Information Commissioner\u2019s Office knows that an \u2018RMT File\u2019 exists in The Consulting Association records, as it is cross referenced in information from the construction industry files that we have in our possession. It is a scandal that nearly three years after this original information came to light that we have still not received copies of the \u2018RMT File.\u2019 Clearly, we have reason to believe that this blacklisting file would have identified RMT activists who will have suffered financial loss from this conspiracy to target known trade union activists purely on the basis of their trade union activity.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He added the \u201cRMT demands full disclosure and will have no hesitation in pursuing legal action against those involved in this scandal.\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>Rail union RMT has demanded full disclosure of a secret \u2018RMT File\u2019 held by blacklisting organisation The Consulting Association. It says to date, the Information Commissioner has only released construction industry files compiled by The Consulting Association. These files, however, include explicit cross references to another \u2018RMT File\u2019 which remains unpublished. RMT believes this has &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.hazards.org\/blacklistblog\/2012\/03\/08\/rmt-demands-publication-of-secret-%e2%80%98rmt-file%e2%80%99\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;RMT demands publication of secret \u2018RMT File\u2019&#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-528","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\/528","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=528"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.hazards.org\/blacklistblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/528\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":534,"href":"https:\/\/www.hazards.org\/blacklistblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/528\/revisions\/534"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hazards.org\/blacklistblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=528"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hazards.org\/blacklistblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=528"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hazards.org\/blacklistblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=528"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}