Roy Benthan reports:
'Cheers
for the heads up there Brian. It [the Tameside MBC's broken model] looks like a carbon copy of our
predicament here on Merseyside and i will be using your broken model
when the time arises' 👍
Blacklist Support
Group update - 6th March 2018.
1. Model
Blacklisting working group resolution which can be presented to all
Constituency Labour Parties (CPL) passed at Liverpool Wavertree Constitutuency Labour Party last month.
Model resolution (please amend as required):
This Constituency Labour Party notes Liverpool City Council’s
ill-fated relationship with two of the most prolific Consulting
Association blacklisters - namely Carillion and Laing O’Rourke,
which has been brought into even sharper focus by the recent collapse
of Carillion.
The CLP shares the Blacklist Support
Group’s dismay that these rogue contractors have been securing
public contracts within our city, thereby rendering the Cabinet's
motion, passed in 2013, meaningless. It also contravenes the ethos of
the document referred to as the 'Workers Charter'
The CLP therefore resolves to remind
the Council that blacklisting was and still is an unacceptable
practice, which cannot be condoned. We therefore urge that those
companies who were members of the clandestine organisation, the
Consulting Association, and any others found to be engaging in
blacklisting, be removed forthwith from the approved list for future
construction work procured by the Council.
Since these discredited contractors have continued to be awarded
work in the city, this CLP calls for a working group to be set up,
comprising two elected members of the Blacklist Support Group and the
appropriate cabinet council members, to monitor this process of
disengagement.
Roy Bentham, blacklisted carpenter from
Liverpool and BSG joint secretary noted:
It’s a groundbreaking motion which
sailed through a vote our CLP and it recognised the need for change
within planning and the procurement processes. Carillion was a
Grenfell moment within the construction industry and we can act as a
vanguard against unethical companies with this resolution.
The old model was broken and we need to
face upto that.. Its now up to us fix it with the firm implementation
of the workers charter. There can be no other way".
2. Spycops - Serious concern over
ongoing delaying tactics at inquiry into undercover political
policing
3. Was my friend an undercover police
officer?
Shocking revelations here too
4. Mark Constantine introduced our
session at the Lush Summit 2018 by saying, “Spycops is THE most
important campaign in the UK today”
5. BSG out in force with banners
and showing support for the Keep NHS public day on Saturday 3rd March
and RMT train drivers strike too
6. Big feature article on John
McDonnell in the FT on Friday 1st March. Both joint secretary’s
Dave Smith and Roy Bentham contributed to the article of one of our
founder members.
McDonnell lists his hobby in Who’s
Who as “fermenting the downfall of capitalism”.
"Our objectives are socialist.
That means an irreversible shift in the balance of power and wealth
in favour of working people,” he explains.
Dave Smith, head of the Blacklist
Support Group, says he would often encounter McDonnell at a picket at
6.30am: “When no one else was prepared to talk to us he was there .
. . representing working people fighting for justice.”
Royston Bentham, a blacklisted
construction worker from Liverpool, says McDonnell sometimes visits
Anfield: “People come over all the time and shake his hand and
chant his name in the pub . . . he has been through the bad times in
the Labour Party and is now on the cusp of something big.”
7. BSG member Jack Fawbert scribes
another brilliant piece on his Blacklisting experiences here
8. Mears dispute has been won by
the brothers and sisters emphatically up in Manchester.
We send our solidarity upto the Nw on a
magnificent victory
http://shopstewards.net/2018/02/4802/
In solidarity
Roy Bentham
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