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23 Mar 2009

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Hansard (House of Commons Debates) [UK]

Blacklisting (Construction Industry) [UK]

Mr. Michael Clapham (Barnsley, West and Penistone) (Lab): I am pleased to have secured this Adjournment debate on blacklisting [in the construction industry]…I hope that the Minister will take action to encourage the industry to change…The health and safety record of the industry is worrying…Workplace safety representatives are an essential tool in helping to improve the health and safety culture on site, but the blacklisting of people who take on the job militates against that…The Minister for Employment Relations (Mr. Pat McFadden): The freedom to belong to a trade union is a key human right…The practice of blacklisting should be anathema in today’s Britain. It is a relic of the past, and if what has occurred recently in the construction industry is blacklisting rearing its head again, of course we will take that seriously.