Blacklisting call


The Unite general union has renewed its call for new and effective laws to outlaw blacklisting and to bar blacklisters from public sector contracts. 


The call follows the revelation in a parliamentary debate by Labour MP Chuka Umunna that the Crossrail project, and major contractors working on it, are blacklisting workers on the basis of union membership, or for raising safety concerns. 


Unite also repeated its call for the government to hold a full public inquiry into the “nefarious practice”. 


Umunna reported “questionable surveillance of workers that took place at a peaceful demonstration at a Crossrail site in 2016”. He said he had evidence that sensitive personal information had been collected and disseminated.

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