Blacklist Demo At Big Lottery Fundx - GMB

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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.
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