So woke up this morning to hear the blacklisting story which leads today's Guardian dominating the news agenda.
Here and here and here and here
The Information Commissioner has spent some six months investigating blacklisting in the construction industry following an article I wrote for the Guardian last year.
The result is detailed in the IC's press release issued today and in the story Rob Evans and myself wrote.
Just starting to listen to the Radio5Live phone in on 'what should your boss know about out' and about two minutes in already depressed by some people's attitudes.
Still, it's all part of working on follow-ups.
One of which is why the government decided not to make blacklisting illegal in the first place - and if they will now.
updates 1:
Bob Piper comments here and alerts me to the link on the Today programme. I've spoken to Steve Acheson, the blacklisted electrician interviewed here, several times for the articles. He won an employment tribunal a couple of years back which found that he had been blacklisted and trade journals and some left wing online forums and magazines covered this. As with most stories; it's just sitting there waiting for people to take an interest. The Guardian and the Information Commissioner did. Meanwhile Steve's barely worked in the last nine years.
The Independent carries reaction from John McDonnell MP and Lord Mandelson (before he was pied). McDonnell says: "It is widely suspected that the Government caved in under pressure from employers' organisations when I raised this issue last time in Parliament [to outlaw blacklisting]."
Following a freedom of information request I was given documents on why the government's u-turn took place and they don't show any pressure beyond standard responses to a consultation. But perhaps more digging can be done on what led to this decision.
A Very Public Sociologist reports here.
Stronger Unions takes up my point on legislation
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