{"id":606,"date":"2012-08-13T05:49:47","date_gmt":"2012-08-13T04:49:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hazards.org\/blacklistblog\/?p=606"},"modified":"2012-08-13T05:49:47","modified_gmt":"2012-08-13T04:49:47","slug":"bsg-news-release-protest-against-balfour-beatty-10am-friday-24-august-2012","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hazards.org\/blacklistblog\/2012\/08\/13\/bsg-news-release-protest-against-balfour-beatty-10am-friday-24-august-2012\/","title":{"rendered":"BSG news release:  Protest against Balfour Beatty, 10am Friday 24 August 2012"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><em>Protest against Balfour Beatty, 10am Friday 24 August 2012<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><em>Balfour Beatty Engineering Services HQ, Lumina Building, 40 Ainslie Road, Hillington Park, Glasgow, G52 4RU<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><em>Protest called jointly by: Blacklist Support Group and UNITE Scottish Sparks rank and file<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Balfour Beatty is one of the worst of all the blacklisting firms with 6 Enforcement Orders against the company by the Information Commissioners Office because of their role in the Consulting Association scandal.<\/p>\n<p>Gerry Harvey &#8211; Director of Human Resources for Balfour Beatty Engineering Services Limited &#8211; is a proven blacklister having been identified in parliament and in court.<\/p>\n<p>Balfour Beatty continue to victimise workers who raise concerens about safety issues including Jonathan Carr from Birmingham and Alan Dransfield from the South West.<\/p>\n<p>Balfour Beatty were also the lead firm attempting to drive down wages and de-skill the electrical contracting industry during the recent BESNA dispute. Electricians in Scotland involved in the dispute have been targeted by Balfour Beatty for redundancy (when no other workers were made redundant on the entire site).<\/p>\n<p>See the related YouTube videos: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=oWz0O5JzGbU&amp;feature=plcp\">Video 1<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=Yhtysi-w7eY&amp;feature=g-upl\">Video 2<\/a>.<\/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>Protest against Balfour Beatty, 10am Friday 24 August 2012 Balfour Beatty Engineering Services HQ, Lumina Building, 40 Ainslie Road, Hillington Park, Glasgow, G52 4RU Protest called jointly by: Blacklist Support Group and UNITE Scottish Sparks rank and file Balfour Beatty is one of the worst of all the blacklisting firms with 6 Enforcement Orders against &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.hazards.org\/blacklistblog\/2012\/08\/13\/bsg-news-release-protest-against-balfour-beatty-10am-friday-24-august-2012\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;BSG news release:  Protest against Balfour Beatty, 10am Friday 24 August 2012&#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-606","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\/606","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=606"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.hazards.org\/blacklistblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/606\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":613,"href":"https:\/\/www.hazards.org\/blacklistblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/606\/revisions\/613"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hazards.org\/blacklistblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=606"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hazards.org\/blacklistblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=606"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hazards.org\/blacklistblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=606"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}