GMB Carillion 'Blacklisting' protest - NEC 31st October

The GMB is staging a photo-call protest at an Energy Awards ceremony hosted by Carillion at Birmingham NEC on 31st October to press Carillion to follow up their recent apology with compensation for the 224 workers they blacklisted. The Retro Expo Awards are hosted by Birmingham Energy Savers and Carillion Energy Services.

 

Carillion involvement with the blacklist included parts of their organization such as Crown House, Schal International, SkyBlue Employment Agency, Tarmac and John Mowlem as well as Carillion itself says GMB

This GMB photo-call will take place as follows:

- From 4pm to 6pm

- Wednesday 31st October

- Outside the Atrium in front of Hall 6

- At the Retro Expo Awards

- National Exhibition Centre, Birmingham, B40 1NT.

There will be a worker dressed as an outlaw with a placard with the slogan "Carillion blacklisting outlawed innocent workers

　

In June 2012 GMB published a report showing that ain one quarter an estimated 2,776 names were checked by Carillion with the Consulting Association, whilst in the period from October 1999 to April 2004 it estimates that Carillion checked at least 14,724 names.

The GMB report "BLACKLISTING - illegal corporate bullying endemic, systemic and deep-rooted in Carillion and other companies" is on the GMB website.

Carillion’s involvement with blacklisting came to light when, in 2009, the Information Commissioners Office ( ICO) seized a 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. Only 198 of those on the blacklist know they are on it leaving 3,015 unaware of this.