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areas ( with numbers in the area listed in brackets): Barnsley (1), Birkenhead (2), Blackburn (5),
Brentwood (1), Bristol (1), Caernarfon (2), Canvey Island in Essex (1), Chatham in Kent (3),
Cheshire (1), Chester (1), Cleator Moor in Cumbria (1), Clwyd (5), Croydon (1), Derby (1), Dundee
(1), Edinburgh (2), Ellesmere Port (3), Essex (1), Folkestone (1), Gateshead (1), Glasgow (1),
Gravesend (1), Grimsby (1), Hartlepool (2), Hillingdon (1), Irvine (1), Isle of Man (10), Kent (58),
Kirkby (1), Leeds (2), Liverpool (14), Livingston (3), Llandudno (1), London (39), Lowestoft (1),
Manchester (13), Merseyside (5), Mold (1), North Wales (1), Oldham (1), Plymouth (1), Rayleigh (1),
Romford (2), Rotherham (4), Scunthorpe (1), Sheffield (1), Sherburn in Elmet in North Yorkshire (1),
Stanford-le-Hope in Essex (2), Sunderland (1), Surrey (1), Thatcham in Berkshire (1), Uxbridge (3),
Warrington (1), West Wickham (1), Wirral (5) and Woodbridge in Suffolk (1).
See GMB report "BLACKLISTING - illegal corporate bullying endemic, systemic and deep-rooted in
Carillion and other companies" which is available on the GMB website at http://www.gmb.org.uk/.
There is evidence from the Information Commissioner that Carillion involvement with the Consulting
Association blacklist included parts of their organization such as Crown House, Schal International,
SkyBlue Employment Agency, Tarmac and John Mowlem as well as Carillion itself. The following
Carrillion managers were named at the Scottish Affairs Committee as being involved in the
operation of the blacklist: Frank Duggan: group personnel director for Carillion plc; Kevin Gorman:
former human resources manager for Carillion’s Crown House division; Liz Keates: head of human
resouces at Carillion; Sandy Palmer: NCS and Dave Aspinall: NCS (Carillion’s in-house
employment agency); John Ball: head of human resources at Carillion; Roger Robinson and Brian
Tock: two managing directors of Crown House. John Edwards from Carillion is identified as
attending Consulting Association meetings in 2008. Blacklisting by Carillion 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. This makes it one of the bigger users. 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. Dave
Smith was one of them and he took his claim to an employment tribunal. Last month GMB published
a map showing where in GB 2,554 lived or worked. 90% still do not know they are on the list.
After GMB representation ICO finally agreed to supply names, date of birth, trade and town to
enable a check against membership records to find members on the blacklist. GMB found nearly
200 exact matches and the union is working with these members to get their files from ICO. Leigh
Day is preparing litigation to get them compensation at no cost to these GMB members.
Information supplied by Carillion, and the firms that it took over, continued to be used for blacklisting
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