THE Tameside TUC book 'Boys on the Blacklist', sponsored by the North West TUC, and credited by Dave Smith as being a complimentary document alongside the Blacklist Support Group's own book 'Blacklisted: The secret war between big business and union activists' is still on sale. The first edition of 'Boys on the Blacklist' sold out in just over a month and it is now on its 3rd print- run.
A presentation of the Tameside TUC book 'Boys on the Blacklist'
was done at the TUC Annual General Meeting at the Manchester Mechanics Institute on the 22nd, November 2014. The book was also on sale the same night at the Lantern Theatre in Sheffield, at the showing of the play about the Shrewsbury pickets: 'UNITED WE STAND'. In January 2015, there was a presentation by Tameside TUC and one of the blacklisted electricians at a meeting of Liverpool TUC. Further launches of the Tameside TUC book followed at the Barnsley performance of 'United We Stand'; at the Moston Miners Arts Club; at the Bury Met.; at Leeds Carriage Theatre; at the St Michael's Irish Centre in Liverpool; and at the Harrogate NUT Conference in April.
Tameside TUC's in-depth Report & Study of Blacklisting in the British building trade
OUT now is Tameside TUC's study of blacklisting in the British building trade. This unique 52-page A5 book concludes our research into blacklisting stretching back for over a decade of struggle by a group of Manchester contracting electricians. This book illustrates a special investigation by two officers of Tameside TUC focusing on cover-ups, collaboration, and complicity by major British construction companies affiliated to the now defunct Consulting Association. We consider the behaviour of local authorities in providing contracts to companies that blacklist workers in the British building trade; especially those in the Greater Manchester area such as Tameside MBC, Salford and Manchester City Council. The book also asks questions as to who else was involved besides: what did the unions do to expose what was going on for decades; who were the whistle-blowers who helped to bring out the truth; what part did the police and special security services play in the history of blacklisting that goes back beyond the days of the Economic League?
Copies of 'Boys on the Blacklist' available by postal subscription:
£3.53 for one copy (post included).
Make cheque payable to 'Tameside TUC' and send to:
46, Kingsland Road, Rochdale, Lancs. OL11 3HQ.
Bundles of 5 copies - £16.60p a package (post included).
Tel.: 01706 861793.
e-mail: northernvoices@hotmail.com
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Would love to get this but not living in the 1980s I don't have a chequebook. Can I pay by Paypal or BACS or whatnot?
There is a rnf meeting in Newcastle 15th November at the labour club , might be worth bringing some along if you can make it I would buy one off you for sure , I reckon others will too.
Please could you bring me five copy's to the branch on Sat.
I would really like to purchase a copy of this but I don't have a chequebook. Is there another way that I could pay for a copy?
We can only suggest that in such cases people send the equivalent in stamps or use a postal order.
morning
really liked your book. Have put it on my post today.
solidarity.
Hi Brian,
Just finished reading your pamphlet - very impressed. You've got some great detail and tell the story well in such a short space. I need to take some tips.
Dave Smith later at a Trade Union conference went on to describe 'BOYS ON THE BLACKLIST' as complimentary to his own book on the history of blacklisting, published by the Blackist Support Group. The contribution of the 'BOYS ON THE BLACKLIST' is that it makes it clear that the campaign against blacklisting began around 2003, following the Employment Tribunal which dealt with the DAF dispute in Manchester. At that Tribunal Michael Fahey claimed that AMICUS was his union, which he claimed because as an employer he and his family company was paying his worker's union dues.
Brian I posted on the rank and file whats app groups the book boys on the blacklist so the younger generations of sparks know stuff. Its all relevant but as unite merged with ucatt most of the MnE delegates have been removed from the RISC and NISC at most one delegate out of 20 in a region the civil trades are trying to do the MnE agreements in. Hence Hinckley point the unite civil trade stewards to stay in employment are trying to transfer hole diggers and concrete workers into MnE trades as NVQ level 2 with silly courses and steel work from MnE trades. There is a war within unite the MnE trades are fighting for our own sector away from civils which are basically run by public sector branches
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