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GMB@WORK victims of blacklisting by Carillion. These names were released in the course of the Dave Smith’s employment tribunal. The 224 people blacklisted by Carillion were either based in or tried to obtain work in the following 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 http://www.gmb.org.uk/newsroom/blacklist-by-trade Page 2/8 Join online today at www.gmb.org.uk/join GMB Euston Office: 22 Stephenson Way, London NW1 2HD • Tel: 020 8391 6700 • email: info@gmb.org.uk
GMB@WORK 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 till the data base was shut down by ICO in 2009. Paul Kenny, GMB General Secretary, said "The scandal of blacklisting now widens to include gross abuses of human rights and basic freedoms. Some of those on the blacklist never worked in the construction industry so who put them on it and why? This demands a thorough judicial enquiry with the full glare of publicity. All those involved need to be brought to account and forced to apologise and compensate those they damaged. Not a single company has done so yet. Carillion is being dragged through the courts again today because its directors refuse to face up to, and settle, liabilities that don’t go away just because they changed the names of their firms who blacklisted workers like Dave Smith for decades." End Contact Dave Smith 07882 579 452 re case. For GMB: to identify more names on the blacklist call please call Phil Read at GMB on 01603 742 877 or 07840 897997 or email him p.read20@ntlworld.com . Call Justin Bowden on 07710 631351 or Maria Ludkin 07956 632 657 or GMB press office at 07921 289880 or 07974 251 823 Notes to editors 1) details of the EAT hearing: From 12 noon Tuesday 26th Feb 2013, Employment Appeal Tribunal, Audit House, 58 Victoria Embankment, London EC4Y 0DS The Case Reference is: D.R. Smith v (1) Carillion, (2) Carillion (JM) Ltd. (3) Schal International Management Ltd. 2) Statement by Dave Smith in advance of the EAT hearing. http://www.gmb.org.uk/newsroom/blacklist-by-trade Page 3/8 Join online today at www.gmb.org.uk/join GMB Euston Office: 22 Stephenson Way, London NW1 2HD • Tel: 020 8391 6700 • email: info@gmb.org.uk
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