{"id":10448,"date":"2016-11-03T17:07:05","date_gmt":"2016-11-03T17:07:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/unitelive.org\/?p=10448"},"modified":"2016-11-03T17:07:05","modified_gmt":"2016-11-03T17:07:05","slug":"subtle-blacklisting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/?p=10448","title":{"rendered":"‘Subtle blacklisting’"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The failure of a construction company to recognise the elected officials of workers on Europe’s largest rail infrastructure project\u00c2\u00a0in central London has been branded \u00e2\u20ac\u0098a subtle form of blacklisting\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 by Unite.<\/p>\n

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Unite is angry that bosses at Laing O\u00e2\u20ac\u2122Rourke are not recognising the election of shop steward Terry Wilson and health & safety rep Martyn Prue who are\u00c2\u00a0electricians working at the Crossrail Tottenham Court Road project.<\/p>\n

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Unite argues that that the company\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s stance contravenes the Trade Union and Labour Relations Act which permits the free election of union reps – and failure to do so is a form of\u00c2\u00a0the blacklisting that has plagued the construction industry for years.<\/p>\n

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\u00e2\u20ac\u015bOur members are furious that basic trade union freedoms, such as the election of union reps, are being attacked by Laing O\u00e2\u20ac\u2122Rourke,” said Unite regional officer Guy Langston.<\/p>\n

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\u00e2\u20ac\u015bThis particular company has always taken a hard line stance about Unite organising workers on its construction sites which is a democratic right enshrined in law – and what is happening at Tottenham Court Road is the latest manifestation of this company\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s attitude to its hardworking workforce.<\/p>\n

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\u00e2\u20ac\u015bWhen you can\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t even have a health & safety rep recognised \u00e2\u20ac\u201c and construction sites are very dangerous places \u00e2\u20ac\u201c it puts the company in a very poor light when it comes to good employment relations practice,” he added.<\/p>\n

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\u00e2\u20ac\u015bWhat we are seeing here is a subtle form of blacklisting and we call on the management to rescind its decision not to recognise our democratically-elected reps.<\/p>\n

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\u00e2\u20ac\u015bIt also against Crossrail\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s labour relations\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 policy which all the Tier 1 contractors, including Laing O’Rourke, have agreed to in working on the Crossrail project,” Langston argued.<\/p>\n

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\u00e2\u20ac\u015bThe hidden agenda here is that Unite has put in for a second tier payment for the electrical and mechanical members working for Laing O\u00e2\u20ac\u2122Rourke \u00e2\u20ac\u201c and the non-recognition of our reps can be seen as a ploy to hinder the progression of this claim.\u00e2\u20ac\u0165<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The failure of a construction company to recognise the elected officials of workers on Europe’s largest rail infrastructure project\u00c2\u00a0in central London has been branded \u00e2\u20ac\u0098a subtle form of blacklisting\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 by Unite.   Unite is angry that bosses at Laing O\u00e2\u20ac\u2122Rourke are not recognising the election of shop steward Terry Wilson and health & safety rep […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5576,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[52,167],"wps_subtitle":"Construction firm urged to recognise reps","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10448"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10448"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10448\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10450,"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10448\/revisions\/10450"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/5576"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10448"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10448"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10448"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}