balfour beatty black list
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evening tim what are the circumstances mate
gunslinger757
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i'm sure UCATT had something on their website about who to get in touch with if you think they have been put on a blacklist. Maybe worth looking there first.
paul
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tim60
Sounds like a low life works manager , had a falling out when i left a firm in Bristol as i gave two weeks notice to the manager and from that point on he made life real hard at work , maybe some guys are not suitable to be in the poistions they are in .
Anyway good luck with the whole thing and hope it works out for you
soulhawk
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Sorry to hear about your situation mate.
Balfour Beatty are the sh*ts and I have dealt with them at a fairly senior level.
Another pack of sh*thouses who want a Rolls Royce for a Robin Reliant price and then try to find as many ways as possible not to pay you for the work.
I am sure a decent solicitor will advise you that operating a Blacklist is illegal but the problem you will have is proving and getting evidence that it exists. If you are in a union, take the complaint to them so it doesn't cost you a wedge. If you aren't in a union, join one and get them to take it on for you. Good luck !
thanks for all your addvice and comments lads i know balfours have there own blacklist.
ive had a phone call from a firm i do bridge erectin for and have been talk that if they take me back on they wount get anymore jobs from balfours
the angecy i work for at the moment have been really good and when told to remove me from a site have stuck up for me and the scaffold company they subed me to between the two of them have made sure i got to go to a nother
site away from balfours
so thanks VANE & BENCHMARK for your surport
ive had a phone call from a firm i do bridge erectin for and have been talk that if they take me back on they wount get anymore jobs from balfours
the angecy i work for at the moment have been really good and when told to remove me from a site have stuck up for me and the scaffold company they subed me to between the two of them have made sure i got to go to a nother
site away from balfours
so thanks VANE & BENCHMARK for your surport
paddy carr
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Hope this helps However we have been screwed again
Construction union UCATT are bitterly disappointed with the new anti-blacklisting regulations, introduced today (March 2), the measures are so weak that they will not prevent blacklisting from occurring.
Alan Ritchie, General Secretary of UCATT, said: “The Government has entirely rejected all UCATT submissions and attempts to have the regulations amended to ensure that blacklisting was stamped out. Fortunately for Lord Young blacklisting doesn’t occur in the House of Lords but ordinary construction workers are not so privileged.”
UCATT have argued that the regulations were deficient as they did not make blacklisting a specific criminal offence and only prevented workers from being blacklisted for undertaking, the narrowly defined, “trade union activities”. The Government has given the green light to employers to blacklist workers for undertaking unofficial industrial action, which could include stopping work due to safety fears or a refusal to undertake voluntary overtime.
The regulations also fail to grant an automatic right to compensation for any worker who discovers that they have been blacklisted. If a blacklist is discovered workers will not be automatically told that they had been blacklisted.
Mr Ritchie, added: “Cynical construction employers will recognise the weakness of the regulations and could continue to blacklist workers. They know that they are unlikely to get caught and if they do they will merely get a slap on the wrist. UCATT will continue to campaign to have the regulations overhauled so that they are truly effective in stamping out this despicable practice once and for all.”
Construction union UCATT are bitterly disappointed with the new anti-blacklisting regulations, introduced today (March 2), the measures are so weak that they will not prevent blacklisting from occurring.
Alan Ritchie, General Secretary of UCATT, said: “The Government has entirely rejected all UCATT submissions and attempts to have the regulations amended to ensure that blacklisting was stamped out. Fortunately for Lord Young blacklisting doesn’t occur in the House of Lords but ordinary construction workers are not so privileged.”
UCATT have argued that the regulations were deficient as they did not make blacklisting a specific criminal offence and only prevented workers from being blacklisted for undertaking, the narrowly defined, “trade union activities”. The Government has given the green light to employers to blacklist workers for undertaking unofficial industrial action, which could include stopping work due to safety fears or a refusal to undertake voluntary overtime.
The regulations also fail to grant an automatic right to compensation for any worker who discovers that they have been blacklisted. If a blacklist is discovered workers will not be automatically told that they had been blacklisted.
Mr Ritchie, added: “Cynical construction employers will recognise the weakness of the regulations and could continue to blacklist workers. They know that they are unlikely to get caught and if they do they will merely get a slap on the wrist. UCATT will continue to campaign to have the regulations overhauled so that they are truly effective in stamping out this despicable practice once and for all.”