{"id":61,"date":"2009-03-21T16:11:30","date_gmt":"2009-03-21T15:11:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hazards.org\/blacklistblog\/?p=61"},"modified":"2009-08-01T16:12:15","modified_gmt":"2009-08-01T15:12:15","slug":"britain-government-pledge-to-end-blacklists","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hazards.org\/blacklistblog\/2009\/03\/21\/britain-government-pledge-to-end-blacklists\/","title":{"rendered":"Britain: Government pledge to end blacklists"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The government has pledged to put an end to blacklisting of safety reps and other union activists. Harriet Harman, deputy leader of the Labour Party, told the House of Commons: \u201cI don&#8217;t think a trade union health and safety representative should find they are on a blacklist and will never be able to work again.\u201d<br \/>\n<span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ucatt.info\/content\/view\/662\/30\/2009\/03\/\">UCATT news release<\/a> \u2022 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.contractjournal.com\/Articles\/2009\/03\/12\/65789\/blacklists-will-be-outlawed.html\">Contract Journal<\/a> \u2022 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.building.co.uk\/story.asp?sectioncode=284&amp;storycode=3136096&amp;c=3\">Building<\/a> \u2022 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnplus.co.uk\/news\/parliament-to-discuss-barring-blacklisters-from-public-works\/1995249.article\">Construction News<\/a> \u2022 <a href=\"http:\/\/news.scotsman.com\/uk\/Harman-pledges-to-end-39scurrilous39.5068803.jp\">The Scotsman<\/a> \u2022 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/uk\/2009\/mar\/16\/blacklisted-workers-hotline\">The Guardian<\/a> \u2022 <a href=\"http:\/\/edmi.parliament.uk\/EDMi\/EDMDetails.aspx?EDMID=38114&amp;SESSION=899\">EDM 1020 &#8211; Blacklisting in construction<\/a> \u2022 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tuc.org.uk\/h_and_s\/tuc-16143-f0.cfm#tuc-16143-14\">Risks 398<\/a> \u2022 21 March 2009<\/span><\/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>The government has pledged to put an end to blacklisting of safety reps and other union activists. Harriet Harman, deputy leader of the Labour Party, told the House of Commons: \u201cI don&#8217;t think a trade union health and safety representative should find they are on a blacklist and will never be able to work again.\u201d &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.hazards.org\/blacklistblog\/2009\/03\/21\/britain-government-pledge-to-end-blacklists\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Britain: Government pledge to end blacklists&#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":[13],"class_list":["post-61","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-the-consulting-association"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hazards.org\/blacklistblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61","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=61"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.hazards.org\/blacklistblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":62,"href":"https:\/\/www.hazards.org\/blacklistblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61\/revisions\/62"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hazards.org\/blacklistblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=61"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hazards.org\/blacklistblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=61"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hazards.org\/blacklistblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=61"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}