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Blacklist Demo At Big Lottery Fund 

GMB to tell blacklist support group AGM that managers and HR profressionals must account for role 

in blacklisting construction workers. 

GMB is about to launch a High Court action involving over one hundred GMB members and 

would encourage anyone unrepresented to join or support us AGM in London tomorrow will 

be told. 

GMB plan to step up the campaign to get named managers and human resources professionals 

involved with blacklisting in construction to apologise for their role in blacklisting, to come clean and 

tell what they knows about it. 

Mr Kenny will tell the Blacklist Support Group AGM in London tomorrow (March 23 rd ) that GMB plan 

to start at the offices of Dianne Hughes, Deputy Director of Human Resources, The Big Lottery 

Fund, 2009-current. She was listed as one of the main contacts by Ian Kerr, who ran the 

blacklisting body, in written evidence to the Scottish Affairs Select Committee. She was Human 

Resources Business Partner, Carillion, 2002-2004 and then Head of Human Resources Crown 

House Technologies, 2004-2008. 

Blacklisting came to light when in 2009 the Information Commissioners Office (ICO) seized a 

Consulting Association database of 3,213 construction workers used by 44 companies to vet new 

recruits and keep out of employment trade union and health and safety activists. Over 60% of those 

on the blacklist were aged between 30 and 50 in the mid1990s. They were active trade union lay 

leaders on construction sites. 

The details of the AGM are as follows: 

10.30 to 4pm Sat 23rd March 

BLACKLIST SUPPORT GROUP AGM 

Faraday House 

Old Gloucester Street, 

Holborn 

London WC1N 3AE 

Speakers include Len McCluskey (Unite), Paul Kenny (GMB), John McDonnell MP, Michael 

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Meacher MP, Sean Curran (High Court legal claim), John Hendy QC and Professor Keith Ewing. 

Blacklisting was not something rare. GMB estimates that in one quarter that Carillion checked 2,776 

names with the Consulting Association and in the period from October 1999 to April 2004 it 

estimates that Carillion checked at least 14,724 names. 

By autumn 2012 only 194 of the 3,213 people on the blacklist knew that they were on the list as 

these had contacted the ICO directly. 

ICO finally agreed to supply names, date of birth, trade and town to enable GMB to check against 

membership records to find members on the blacklist. GMB found nearly 200 exact matches and the 

union is working to get files from ICO. Leigh Day is preparing litigation to get them compensation at 

no cost to these GMB members. 

GMB issued a map showing where in GB 2,554 lived or worked. GMB also disclosed that some on 

the list are green activists who have not worked in construction industry. GMB is asking if the 

security services were involved in them being put on the list. GMB also revealed that at least 240 on 

the list are women. 

Of 1,864 people on the list there are: 529 electricians (28.4%), 240 labourers (12.9%), 211 

joiners/carpenters (11.3%), 174 pipe fitters/laggers (9.3%), 141 platers, erectors and other metal 

workers (7.6%), 105 bricklayers (5.6%), 99 welders (5.3%), 96 scaffolders (5.2%), 66 banksman/ 

riggers (3.5%), 63 others (3.4%). 33 miners/ tunnellers (1.8%), 31 plumbers (1.7%), 25 fitters 

(1.3%), 21 drivers/crane drivers (1.1%), 17 plasterers/painters (0.9%) and 13 engineers (0.7%).The 

occupation for 1,349 people on the list is not known. 

Paul Kenny, GMB General Secretary, will say at AGM “GMB will force the companies to 

apologise and compensate those they blacklisted. GMB will also call to account all the 

managers and the human resources professionals who organized the whole thing for 20 

years. 

GMB led the charge to force the ICO to give up the list, and made them account publicly for 

their lack of action in failing to inform people that they were on the list. 90% still do not know 

they are on the list. 

GMB has widely publicised the issue nationally and locally with maps and detailed reports to 

help find more of those on the list. 





GMB is about to launch a High Court action involving over one hundred GMB members, and 

we would encourage anyone unrepresented to join or support us. 

On environmental activists on the list GMB is putting together an action group, looking at 

their legal claims, and working with Bindmans to see how information about them was 

collected - was it from the police or some other unlawful force? 

GMB is seeking a commitment that the Labour Party makes a public inquiry into blacklisting 

a manifesto pledge. 

GMB is partnered with Liberty on getting to the bottom of this outrageous human rights 

scandal.” 

End 

Contact: Dave Smith 07882 579 452 re Blacklist Support Group AGM. 

For GMB: to identify more names on the blacklist call please call Phil Read at GMB on 01603 742 

877 or 07840 897997 or email him p.read20@ntlworld.com . Call Justin Bowden on 07710 631351 

or Maria Ludkin 07956 632 657 or GMB press office at 07921 289880 or 07974 251 823 

GMB to tell blacklist support group AGM that managers and HR profressionals must account for role 

in blacklisting construction workers. 

GMB is about to launch a High Court action involving over one hundred GMB members and 

would encourage anyone unrepresented to join or support us AGM in London tomorrow will 

be told. 

GMB plan to step up the campaign to get named managers and human resources professionals 

involved with blacklisting in construction to apologise for their role in blacklisting, to come clean and 

tell what they knows about it. 

Mr Kenny will tell the Blacklist Support Group AGM in London tomorrow (March 23 rd ) that GMB plan 

to start at the offices of Dianne Hughes, Deputy Director of Human Resources, The Big Lottery 

Fund, 2009-current. She was listed as one of the main contacts by Ian Kerr, who ran the 

blacklisting body, in written evidence to the Scottish Affairs Select Committee. She was Human 

Resources Business Partner, Carillion, 2002-2004 and then Head of Human Resources Crown 





House Technologies, 2004-2008. 

Blacklisting came to light when in 2009 the Information Commissioners Office (ICO) seized a 

Consulting Association database of 3,213 construction workers used by 44 companies to vet new 

recruits and keep out of employment trade union and health and safety activists. Over 60% of those 

on the blacklist were aged between 30 and 50 in the mid1990s. They were active trade union lay 

leaders on construction sites. 

The details of the AGM are as follows: 

10.30 to 4pm Sat 23rd March 

BLACKLIST SUPPORT GROUP AGM 

Faraday House 

Old Gloucester Street, 

Holborn 

London WC1N 3AE 

Speakers include Len McCluskey (Unite), Paul Kenny (GMB), John McDonnell MP, Michael 

Meacher MP, Sean Curran (High Court legal claim), John Hendy QC and Professor Keith Ewing. 

Blacklisting was not something rare. GMB estimates that in one quarter that Carillion checked 2,776 

names with the Consulting Association and in the period from October 1999 to April 2004 it 

estimates that Carillion checked at least 14,724 names. 

By autumn 2012 only 194 of the 3,213 people on the blacklist knew that they were on the list as 

these had contacted the ICO directly. 

ICO finally agreed to supply names, date of birth, trade and town to enable GMB to check against 

membership records to find members on the blacklist. GMB found nearly 200 exact matches and the 

union is working to get files from ICO. Leigh Day is preparing litigation to get them compensation at 

no cost to these GMB members. 

GMB issued a map showing where in GB 2,554 lived or worked. GMB also disclosed that some on 

the list are green activists who have not worked in construction industry. GMB is asking if the 

security services were involved in them being put on the list. GMB also revealed that at least 240 on 

the list are women. 





Of 1,864 people on the list there are: 529 electricians (28.4%), 240 labourers (12.9%), 211 

joiners/carpenters (11.3%), 174 pipe fitters/laggers (9.3%), 141 platers, erectors and other metal 

workers (7.6%), 105 bricklayers (5.6%), 99 welders (5.3%), 96 scaffolders (5.2%), 66 banksman/ 

riggers (3.5%), 63 others (3.4%). 33 miners/ tunnellers (1.8%), 31 plumbers (1.7%), 25 fitters 

(1.3%), 21 drivers/crane drivers (1.1%), 17 plasterers/painters (0.9%) and 13 engineers (0.7%).The 

occupation for 1,349 people on the list is not known. 

Paul Kenny, GMB General Secretary, will say at AGM “GMB will force the companies to 

apologise and compensate those they blacklisted. GMB will also call to account all the 

managers and the human resources professionals who organized the whole thing for 20 

years. 

GMB led the charge to force the ICO to give up the list, and made them account publicly for 

their lack of action in failing to inform people that they were on the list. 90% still do not know 

they are on the list. 

GMB has widely publicised the issue nationally and locally with maps and detailed reports to 

help find more of those on the list. 

GMB is about to launch a High Court action involving over one hundred GMB members, and 

we would encourage anyone unrepresented to join or support us. 

On environmental activists on the list GMB is putting together an action group, looking at 

their legal claims, and working with Bindmans to see how information about them was 

collected - was it from the police or some other unlawful force? 

GMB is seeking a commitment that the Labour Party makes a public inquiry into blacklisting 

a manifesto pledge. 

GMB is partnered with Liberty on getting to the bottom of this outrageous human rights 

scandal.” 

End 

Contact: Dave Smith 07882 579 452 re Blacklist Support Group AGM. 

For GMB: to identify more names on the blacklist call please call Phil Read at GMB on 01603 742 




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or Maria Ludkin 07956 632 657 or GMB press office at 07921 289880 or 07974 251 823

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