Construction worker Mick Dooley continues his employment tribunal against Balfour Beatty today claiming unfair dismissal because he was being blacklisted. Balfour deny the claim.
The Mirror carries a report where Dooley alleges that Special Branch were involved in the blacklisting scandal. Update: The Guardian also reports on the case
It's not reported here but Dooley has previously told me of the lengths to which it appears someone or company was prepared to go to disrupt this union activist. That includes sending pornography to his house and having women leave messages on his answer phone suggesting he was having an affair.
The tribunal is, I believe, due to finish tomorrow.
Meanwhile the regulations outlawing blacklisting which have been proposed by the government were laid before parliament on January 5 and are due to be debated today by the Joint Committee on Statutory Instruments - pretty much the only chance there will be for a debate on this issue.
A list of the committee members is here.It has 14 members (seven MPs and seven peers), a majority of whom are Labour/Lib Dems. It is chaired by the Conservative MP David Maclean whose voting record shows him having voted against gay rights, the hunting ban and action to tackle climate change. I can find little evidence of any empathy with trade unions. However he did try and bring in a law which would have watered down the Freedom of Information Act.
Unions and lawyers say the new rules are full of holes, but the government has not changed the wording since they were outlined in November.
Alan Ritchie, General Secretary of the construction union UCATT, said: “The blacklisting regulations are fundamentally flawed. It is deeply disappointing that the Government has failed to listen to the genuine concerns of trade unionists and have failed to make the appropriate amendments to the regulations."
The regulations need to be agreed by both Houses of Parliament before they can be enacted into law.
The blacklisting regulations should be amended.
Posted by: 被リンク | Sunday, February 07, 2010 at 08:57