We are publishing below the latest briefing from the Blacklist Support Group (BSG).
"High Court latest:
The blacklisting High Court claim
was meant to be in court this week but because of the early retirement of the
judge on the case it was postponed. We expect to be back in court in June -
July.
In another appalling twist it has
been revealed that the ICO has handed over the complete list of names, addresses
and national insurance numbers directly to the blacklisting firms after a court
order was issued - giving them a ready made blacklist database that was
supposedly going to be put out of business.
GMB is currently taking out a
High Court injunction to find out what this secret court order is all about. GMB statement reads:
"Both Pinsents Masons (firms
lawyers) and the ICO have refused to give us a copy of the order claiming it is
bound a practise direction of secrecy. Yesterday our lawyers attended the High
Court, and Master Leslie told our lawyers that we should be allowed to see the
order. Overnight the administration office of the court has refused to give us
the order on the basis that it is a secret order. We have been told that the
order restrict the persons or classes of persons who may obtain a copy of the
order."
We didn't think this scandal
could get any more murkier - it now appears that a government department has
handed the blacklisting firms the most up to date contacts details of all the
workers they blacklisted. And all done in secret. Literally lost for
words.
3. Compensation Scheme
latest
The blacklisting firms have let
it slip that they intend to unilaterally launch their own compensation scheme
without the support of the unions, Blacklist Support Group or Guney Clark &
Ryan solicitors. Since they first announced their scheme last year the firms
have completely failed to grasp the fact that their evil conspiracy has actually
affected peoples lives. They treat us now with the exact same disdain they
treated us when they denied us work.
Under the firms
blacklist compensation scheme, the vast majority of workers would be entitled to
£3,000 and not a single blacklisted worker will be offered a job. This is an
insult to the workers whose lives they have ruined over
decades.
Blacklisting is a
major human rights conspiracy that is likely to result in the firms being banned
from future publicly funded contracts until such time that they come clean. If
Labour wins the Election, they will be facing a big hit on their profits. But
the firms, their expensive lawyers and spin doctors still think they have done
nothing wrong. It is the business ethics of Don Corleone. Until they wise
up, their misnamed compensation scheme is a non-starter. If the
firms intend to unilaterally launch their ten bob scheme it will be without the
endorsement of the Blacklist Support Group and the blacklisted workers that we
represent. Any compensation scheme agreed solely by the perpetrators is not
justice. BSG suggest that everyone avoids this PR stunt like the
plague.
BSG slogan is: "No talks
about us - without us"
4. Blacklist Support Group met
with Christian Khan solicitors again last week after we were contacted by
Operation Herne - the police investigation into undercover police spying on the
Lawrence family and other activists. BSG reiterate our position that we will
have nothing to do with the police investigation themselves - the interim Herne
report is a total whitewash and exonerates the police of every single allegation
made against them in relation to blacklisting and is in complete opposition to
the information that has already been disclosed to the BSG and our lawyers by
the IPCC and the ICO.
5. Call for public Inquiry
continues
The only way to get this scandal
fully exposed is by a public inquiry - BSG urge all our supporters to raise the
issue within their networks and with their MPs.
6. Art against
Blacklisting
BSG Artist in Residence, Thatch
Mi-ous has set up a FB page for artists using blacklisting as an inspiration -
any artist whether a graphic artist, painter, photographer or musician is
welcome to post their work on the page. (an example attached)
7. Agency workers walk
outs
Last two weeks have seen a number
of walk outs and disputes on building sites by agency workers demanding to be
taken on the cards after the recent tax changes.
Site Worker - Latest edition out
now: http://siteworker.blogspot.co.uk/2014/04/agency-electricians-stage-walk-out.html?m=1
8. Blacklisting is a global
phenomenon
International Union Rights
magazine - Special Edition on blacklisting out now
Global union magazine read by
unions, lawyers & academics - article includes blacklisting articles from
Australia, Colombia, Turkey, France, the North Sea and the UK.
email: ictur@ictur.org for a copy or order online: http://www.jstor.org/stable/10.14213/inteuniorigh.21.issue-1#mobileBookmark
Mexican migrant workers
blacklisted by Canadian authorities when they joined a union: http://www.eturbonews.com/43970/mexico-found-guilty-blacklisting-mexican-migrant-workers-canada
Hazards latest: http://www.hazards.org/victimisation/blacklistwarning.htm
9. Caroline Murphy - head of
Murphys resignation - statement on blacklisting
Have a good break
everyone
Keep the
faith
Dave
Blacklist Support Group
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1 comment:
This is very worrying!:
'[That] the blacklisting firms have let it slip that they intend to unilaterally launch their own compensation scheme without the support of the unions, Blacklist Support Group or Guney Clark & Ryan solicitors.'
Chances are that the blacklisters will now try to do out-of-court deals with individual workers to buy them off. If this goes ahead none of the company bastards will be dragged through the Courts.
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