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Post by bryan on Jun 14, 2005 6:41:33 GMT
BLACKLIST MOTION AT LAST WEEKEND'S NATIONAL TRADE UNION COUNCILS CONFERENCE IN LIVERPOOL.
The Motion was passed with no votes against. This Motion was moved by a NANista and electrician from Tameside TUC & seconded by another electrician from Merseyside. Alec McFadden the North West TUC representative on the TUC Joint Consultative Council and a companera Sheila Banks who was involved in the Magnet dispute, and is from Leeds spoke in favour of the Motion.
Sheila Banks told the Conference that her husband had attempted suicide when he was he was blacklisted. She spoke emotionally saying: 'He did it not because he didn't want to stand on a picket line, but because he couldn't stand the endless days without a job.'
Fuller report later.
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Post by bryan on Jun 28, 2005 6:15:05 GMT
JOINT INDUSTRY BOARD SAYS: IT IS NOT OUR 'POLICY TO HAVE A BLACKLIST OF ELECTRICIANS'. "He would say that wouldn't he?": Mandy Rice Davis (model) in trial of John Profumo (1963).
IN A LETTER dated 16th, March 2005, Mr L.R.Horsey, Secretary to the Joint Industry Board (JIB) stated: ‘...I wish to confirm that it is not the policy of the JIB to have a blacklist of registered electricians.’ Worries have existed for some time about the JIB operations in the building trade. In October 1999, Mr John McAllion MSP spoke in the House of Commons debate on Government policy towards the JIB. He raised concerns about its earlier life as a ‘trade union’ and called on the Minister to ‘undertake a comprehensive investigation into the operation of the JIB from its inception in 1967…’ Blacklist?: ‘Insufficient Evidence’ With all this in mind the Judgement of the Manchester Employment Tribunal (dated 16th, May 2005) in the case of the Manchester electricians v Daf Electrical Contractors Ltd. Found that: ‘Each claimant (electrician) had made unsuccessful efforts to find employment with JIB registered employers.’ The Tribunal concluded that ‘there was insufficient evidence...that the JIB operated a blacklist of workers.’ It then added that: ‘If the existence of a blacklist was an important part of the Claimants’ case the Tribunal would have expected them to make an application for an Order that a JIB Officer attend to give evidence at the Hearing.’ Such an application should properly have been made by the electricians’ T&G union solicitors: Susan Routledge of Jack Thornley & Partners (Solicitors), Warrington Street Ashton-under-Lyne: 0161-339 8111 Fax: 0161-343 1708. <<
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Post by bryan on Jun 28, 2005 6:19:25 GMT
The above article is the leading article on the front page of the current Summer 2005 issue of the 'NORTH WEST COWBOY' No.2.
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Post by Mitch on Jun 28, 2005 10:35:57 GMT
www.labournet.net/ukunion/0403/daf1.htmlBryan, Would you say this article above is a fair summary of events so far. A pulling away of T&G support, no doubt now influenced by 'sweetheart deal' supremo union Amicus now. Is the picket still going on at Piccadily Gardens by the six electricians? Seems to me the anti-casualisation campaign should be thinking first how this important struggle should be supported. Firstly, shouldn't we be flooding the picket with support. Secondly, shouldn't we be looking at the big player companies involved eg. Carillion, and others in the construction industry, tracing supply chains, looking at partnerships etc. with a view to seeing where hard hitting direct action can do the most good. Thirdly - addressing this - "Electricians in the construction industry are covered by an antiquated union-management deal known as the Joint Industry Board (JIB) agreement." - a deliberate controlling arrangement that favours employers, allowing them to continue 'sweetheart' deals with one union - AMICUS. Can you tell us more about the JIB. Looks to me that the JIB is simply an arms wing of Amicus, in partnership with the ECA (Electrical Contracting Industry). The ECA is a group of private employers within the industry. (Joint Industry Board (JIB) website is: www.jib.org.uk/home.htm)This is what the JIB state in their 'mission' statement: ..."enhance the image, capability and profitability of the industry through the creation of a safe working environment and the utilisation of the required range of operatives skills, up to the highest level and in the most efficient manner, within a regulated structure, to ensure stable and quality employment". I'd suggest the JIB need exposing on how they are actually compromising health and safety in the contruction industry. Fourthly - looking for wider support. What does Dave Douglass and the IWW say/know about this campaign? What advice/assistance can they give? IWW, Northern Regional email: iwwnorth@yahoo.com Fifthly - the building anti-casualisation campaign in the North West could do well to look at they can reach/raise awareness with the casual workers who have replaced these skilled workers on the Manchester sites. They should be hitting the picket lines/sites in Manchester with a strong presence/leaflets etc. Sixthly - look at how the tribunal/the law will only go so far. I have seen this so many times with homeworker's tribunals. Women that have worked for 14 years for the same company at home to be told by a tribunal that they are not employees. What is the next date for a tribunal hearing on this case at Manchester? Whenever it is, there should be a picket outside there in protest at how employment legislation favours employers, and now is beginning to look for getout loopholes for full-time skilled employees. Seventh - how can you bring together casual workers and skilled workers in this important challenge. That is something for the anti-casualisation campaign to look at particularly! All these I'd suggest should have been discussed at the anti-casualisation meeting on the 18th. Anyway, please let me know if there's anything we can do here. I can afford £5 and will be sending this off today to the strike fund. Should we be writing to Tony Woodley expressing our disgust at the T&G pulling support away from the electricians? ANYONE WISHING TO SUPPORT THE ELECTRICIANS' STRIKE FUND SHOULD SEND CHEQUES TO: Electricians’ strike fund: Steve/Tony on 07813 456831. Cheques payable to: DAF Hardship Fund OR A. Jones, Treasurer c/o Steve Acheson (shop rep.) 6/1400/7 Branch Secretary 13 Thompson Close, Dane Bank, Denton, Manchester, M34 2PQ.
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Post by bryan on Jun 30, 2005 5:41:42 GMT
Paciencia Mitch!!! Page 2 of the current NORTH WEST COWBOY coming up.
Under Oath Elactrical Boss says: 'CARILLION INSISTED THAT NO-ONE FROM PICCADILLY (SITE) WOULD PASS THE GATES'
Report by Brian Bamford (maintenace electrician) of the Manchester Social Forum & editor of Northern Voices. CARILLION BOSS STANDS ACCUISED!
WHEN RELUCTANT WITNESS, Daf director Michael Fahey, went into the witness box he confirmed that Alan Swift, Carillion/Crown House Project Manager, had told him at a meeting on 9th, May 2003, that ‘nobody from my site would be allowed onto the Crown Square Magistrates’ Court site’.
Under oath in the witness box at the Manchester Employment Tribunal on the 7th, April 2005*, Mr Mike Fahey declared: ‘Alan (Swift - boss of Carillion’s sub-company Crown House) told us...that the claimants (the eleven Manchester electricians) were well known in the Manchester area as Militants who had caused massive problems on other sites.’
This statement had been confirmed in the witness box earlier by David Andrew Fahey, managing director of Daf; he had been present when Alan Swift made his black-balling declaration against the Manchester electricians. Liz Keates of Carillion’s Hiring Department was also at this meeting.
Of the same May 9th meeting Mr Dave Fahey said under oath: ‘Michael, John Fahey and me were called into a meeting at CMMC (Crown Square Magistrates’ Court Site) with Alan Swift (Project Manager Crown House Executive) and Liz Keats (Hire Manager Carillion) and were told by them that under no circumstances would anybody who had protested outside the Piccadilly Gardens site be allowed onto the CMMC site.’ He also said Roger Furmadge of AMICUS was present to ‘advise Carillion of how to get rid of the electricians’.
Dave Fahey added that: ‘This directive had come from the Carillion Project Manager James Tiffany, who said the company could not afford any adverse publicity or disruption to a tight building programme. At this point, they also refused to allow us to transfer labour from Piccadilly to CMMC.’
Though the Employment Tribunal doesn’t comment on this evidence—possibly because it was outside its remit—the case that Carillion was operating a blacklist against some Manchester electricians seems strong based on the statements of the Daf employers in the witness box.
No Smoking Gun?
It is almost impossible to produce a smoking gun in the hands of the bosses, when it comes to proving a blacklist exists on the building sites. And yet, the case of Manchester electricians v Daf Electrical Contractors Ltd. comes close to leaving us with a strong distinct smell of cordite.
BOTH MR MICHAEL FAHEY & DAVID ANDREW FAHEY, DIRECTORS OF DAF ELECTRICAL, POINTED THEIR FINGERS AT CARILLION. PROJECT MANAGER JAMES TIFFANY OF CARILLION & ALAN SWIFT OF CROWN HOUSE (a Carillion subsidary company) BOTH STAND ACCUSED FROM THE WITNESS BOX OF AN ENGLISH LEGAL TRIBUNAL BY EMPLOYERS ACTING UNDER OATH. BOTH FAHEY BROTHERS DECLARED BEFORE GOD: 'I PROMISE TO TELL THE TRUTH, THE WHOLE TRUTH, AND NOTHING BUT THE TRUTH.'
Mr David Fahey said he told the Crown House Electrical ( sub-branch of Carillion)Project Manager Alan Swift, that ‘if we (Daf) were unable to transfer labour between sites this may cause us financial difficulty due to redundancy costs and...we would incur higher labour costs due to expenses etc.’
He was told the ‘position is not negotiable and, if necessary, Crown House would take the contract off us.’
Dave Fahey said: ‘I have recently asked Alan Swift to confirm this in writing, but he has refused, as has Liz Keates of Carillion.’
No smoking gun maybe! But nods and winks, and threats to take away contracts in this the WILD WEST WORLD of Manchester’s construction boom. All this, in this our ‘WORLD CLASS CITY’! < <
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Post by Mitch on Jun 30, 2005 9:26:07 GMT
Patience is urr not my middle name.
The bosses begin to turn on each other - great progress.
AMICUS - 'no more than bureaucratic organs of the state, mate!'
Anti-casualisation campaign could be looking into other Carillion/Daf contracts around Manchester.
Also, links and complicity of Manchester City Council and......
Winning support of casual workers on sites.
Development along Burnley's Leeds/Liverpool canal is planned here soon - wonder who'll get that contract?
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Post by bryan on Jul 1, 2005 3:53:50 GMT
Mitch, it is doubtful if Daf will get another contract in Manchester, they have upsety both Carillion & the Manchester City Council. The Daf picket at Manchester Piccadilly ended about August 2003. The picket then moved to Crown Square, where Daf had another sub-contract ongoing with Carillion as the main contractor. That job finish around July 2004, after the first Tribunal case. The struggle in Manchester is now with Carillion & the Electricians are fighting it at street & union branch level.
Last Monday the branch agreed to pay £50 to the COWBOY. Also an appeal went in last week against the Tribunal award of about £1,000 lost of earnings to the lads + £3,500 statuture award for 'dismissal for trade union membership'.
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Post by bryan on Jul 1, 2005 4:02:33 GMT
Oh yes, I almost forgot! What is particularly shocking is the involvement of an AMICUS official at the meeting with Carillion/Daf to, according to one of the Daf directors, help Carillion gey rid of these Manchester electricians???
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Post by Mitch on Jul 1, 2005 9:40:05 GMT
Copy of email below send to well known AMICUS representative in Nelson. What I am wondering Bryan, is whether many grassroots members of AMICUS are aware of what's going on. Do you think it's worth raising awareness here. Anyway, I do and have sent this email below this morning to a Local Amicus representative - I think (indeed I know) he will be disgusted at his own union's behaviour. He has been a committed grassroots trade unionist for years. I hope he will respond. Dear ........., Hope all is well with yourself, I caught a picture of yourself and ....... in the Leader the other week planting a tree - great work in the community you are doing. I'm writing here to yourself, as a well known Amicus trade union representative in Burnley & Nelson, wondering if yourself and other trade union members (including ....... particularly) are aware of the Manchester Electricians Campaign against Carillion (construction contractors) and DAF. www.labournet.net/ukunion/0403/daf1.htmlThis link is a good summary of the campaign so far, and more information can be gleaned from the Burnley Voice web forum at: oogleboogle.proboards23.com/index.cgi?board=Casualisation&action=display&thread=1095338205&page=3(look particularly at page 2 and 3 of this thread). Both the Northern 'Cowboy' and Northern Voices have been reporting on this campaign from the start, and I will glady send you copies of these for more information if you email me back with your address. I think many AMICUS grassroots members may not be aware of how their own union is behaving in this campaign, so my point in drawing this to your attention is to hopefully raise awareness amongst some of your members. If I was an Amicus member (or a T&G or GMB member - pending merger I am well aware of), I would be up in arms against the behaviour of Amicus union leaders in this campaign. Bryan Bamford on the Burnley Voice has stated, "What is particularly shocking is the involvement of an AMICUS official at the meeting with Carillion/Daf to, according to one of the Daf directors, help Carillion gey rid of these Manchester electricians". Blacklists are afoot, and I wondered if you would perhaps raise this campaign at your next Amicus meeting. I know that grassroots members will be disgusted at these course of events. I look forward to hearing from you, and any support you may wish to offer. Amicus members, I'd suggest, should be worried about the behaviour of 'leaders' in their own union. This is selling out ALL trade union grassroots members. I very much look forward to your response on this, or any assistance you can give. Very best wishes. Mitch IWW member National Group on Homeworking member
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Post by Mitch on Jul 28, 2005 17:11:03 GMT
www.thisislancashire.co.uk/lancashire/news/LETTOPNEWS0.htmlMany may have seen the front page of the Lancashire Evening Telegraph today with news that Time Computers, a big employer in the area, with a big base at Simonstone has FOLDED and ceased trading. Employees found out this news on the internet, NOT from their employers and many will not be paid for their last TWO month's work as the company has now gone into receivership. Workers will have to claim lost wages from a Government insurance fund - this could take weeks, and in the meantime how will workers and their family manage? This company has a long record of high turnerover, a workforce consisting of many younger workers, and many workers who are recruited through temping agencies and are on casual contracts. The workforce was completely un-unionised, and no union prior to this news now had reached out to employees and casual workers in this company. The only thing that Graham Coxon of the GMB can come up with is that he is deeply concerned about workers being 'continually kep in the dark'. The worst of it is that police have been called to the Time Computers base at Simonstone because workers complained they were not being allowed to leave the building until an announcement had been made. Police have now set up a 'low key!' presence to prevent breaches of the peace. Time Computers has been losing upto £2million a month since January, and workers had no idea. Kitty Ussher, Burnley NEW LABOUR MP, has the cheek to comment, "I have spoken to the administrators and will be in contact with the GMB union. It seems a clear case of management failure and the staff are the innocent victims". NO KITTY dear, management incompetence may play a role, but your Labour Party, this government is complicit. Your party has created loopholes in employment legislation which facilities such behaviour by unscrupulous employers - and has allowed the increasing numbers of atypical/casual workers to balloon in this region. SUCH CASUAL/ATYPICAL AND YOUNGER WORKERS HAVE NO UNION PROTECTION. "A devastated John A d c o c k, 45, said he was still in shock after being one of the first to be told he had been made redundant - despite working as a cleaner there for over 10 years ... This will leave me in great difficulty as I have bills that need paying but there is not much I can do about the situation". (LET, 28th July 2005, p.3) And now you, Kitty, have joined forces with the GMB who has jumped onto this very PUBLIC large company failure - dear me your figures will look bad. Quick, get that Homebase up Better Burnley Brigade. For your information Kitty, this kind of behaviour by unscrupulous employers in this region has been going on for years, particularly in small manufacturing companies struggling to survive and employing large numbers of casual workers who don't know if they will continue to have a job from week to week. Perhaps you would like to consider two now redundant workers from Time to help you with your website, for a rather high salary no doubt!! The GMB has been closing branches in this area for several years, and has failed to change with the changing nature of work, making no effort to support atypical and casual workers in the area. They will do no more than administer redundancies in this case - rather convenient for yourself and your mealy mouthed government I'd suggest! "Sacked staff, who worked a month in hand, will soon receive forms to make claims under a Government scheme that pays ex-employees out of National Insurance contributions. But they may have to wait another month before the payments - no more than £280 a week - actually start". LET, p3. Meanwhile, staff sit dejected outside the Simonstone base whilst GMB representatives and Kitty Ussher evade responsibility.
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Post by michele cryer on Jul 29, 2005 11:14:25 GMT
What a terrible situation Mitch, and I agree that Kitty Ussher and the Labour Party have to be blamed for allowing such behaviour by company bosses to go on...
The idea of learning about the demise of the company you work for via the Internet disgusts me!
I do hope that eventually these workers will receive the full money which is due to them...
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Post by Mitch on Aug 20, 2005 17:10:48 GMT
CALLING THE GMB AND KITTY USSHER, THE GMB AND KITTY USSHER. (Trumpets!) Workers treated horrendously by failing companies is an almsot weekly affair in this neck of the woods. Not such a public affair as Time Computers failing, so the welfare of these workers will receive little attention from Twitty and the GMB. A former employee of VFN says, "It has left me out of work, and having to apply for everything that comes my way, but I'm getting a bit long in the tooth for this now – they don't want to know because I'm middle aged, and a lot of us are in the same situation. "That company was our jobs, and they've gone."Wonder if Kitty Ussher has been in a Job Centre Plus (privately run job centres) or a temping agency in Burnley or Nelson recently - and knows what it feels like to be degraded in one of these places. Job losses shock as firm goes bust Wages to go unpaid as company faces insolvency. WORKERS at the Trawden-based company VFN engineering this week received official confirmation that they had lost their jobs. Mr Paul Butterworth, managing director of the Skipton Road company which sent more than 30 of its workers home last Monday, has sent letters out to the staff telling them that the company is insolvent and unable to meet ongoing commitments, including salaries and related costs. The company is planning to become formally insolvent a week today, when a winding-up resolution is expected to be passed, and accountancy firm Price Waterhouse Coopers is handling the financial side of the process. One worker said this week that the accountants had told him all of the money raised from the company would be swallowed up by the bank, and that any claim made to the insolvency service for the wages owed to him would be unlikely to be paid. He said: "I have lost £800 altogether through wages and notice pay that they owe me. The accountants said that all the money they were getting together was going to the bank – there would be nothing for anyone else, and if I put in a claim I would just be wasting a stamp." He added that although he and his colleagues had known that there were problems at the factory, they had not been given any indication of how bad things had become. "It's been going through a bad patch for a bit," he said. "They used to deal with Ford but they have pulled out and gone to another company and it's all been downhill from there. "We didn't know it was going to be at the stage where they would just push you out and slam the door behind you." No-one was answering the phone this week at the factory, which incorporates Victoria Forge (Nelson) Engineering and Victoria Products, while Price Waterhouse Coopers said that they would not release any information about the firm until it was officially insolvent. In the mean time, former employees were signing on the dole. He said: "It has left me out of work, and having to apply for everything that comes my way, but I'm getting a bit long in the tooth for this now – they don't want to know because I'm middle aged, and a lot of us are in the same situation. "That company was our jobs, and they've gone." 19 August 2005 Colne Times
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Post by bryan on Dec 9, 2005 18:37:28 GMT
SENSATION: Bosses' cheques to Manchester electricians bounce.
As I write the Manchester electricians are believed to be drowing their sorrows after returning from the Manchester County Court. It was reported to the Manchester Social Forum (one of the main backers of the Manchester electricians) and the journal NORTHERN VOICES yesterday, that the cheques awarding hardship money to the Manchester electricians for lost earnings when they were victimised for trade union membership two years ago have bounced.
Today a move was made by the sparks to get the COunty Court to act against their employers. We must await the result.
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Post by Mitch on Dec 11, 2005 19:11:28 GMT
SENSATION: Bosses' cheques to Manchester electricians bounce. As I write the Manchester electricians are believed to be drowing their sorrows after returning from the Manchester County Court. It was reported to the Manchester Social Forum (one of the main backers of the Manchester electricians) and the journal NORTHERN VOICES yesterday, that the cheques awarding hardship money to the Manchester electricians for lost earnings when they were victimised for trade union membership two years ago have bounced. Today a move was made by the sparks to get the COunty Court to act against their employers. We must await the result. Jeez, seems to me that employment tribunals are increasingly serving employers, who use every trick in the book to stall and evade. I know homeworkers who have waited years for their compensation - loopholes are increasingly appearing in tribunals (I think it's a deliberate tactic because tribunals have skyrocketed in the last 10 years - they are trying to reduce them.) I hope this is in the local press, and that employers concerned are named and shamed in this affair - horrendous. In solidarity with the electricians. Mitch Burnley Voice
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Post by bryan on Jun 1, 2006 16:33:17 GMT
What follows is the latest posts on the www.blacklistedelectricians.blogspot.comThis is the site of alan Wainwright a former disgruntled manager who is taking is former employer to the Industrial Tribunal: Q: ARE YOU A BLACKLISTED ELECTRICIAN ? This website is dedicated to exposing the blacklisting procedures that take place in the UK Construction Industry. Sunday, May 07, 2006 HADEN YOUNG - THE EXETER SCHOOLS PROJECT In light of the recent press articles surrounding the reasons for taking my previous employer, HADEN YOUNG LIMITED to a tribunal for constructive dismissal, I would like to make the following comment to clarify matters. I am taking Haden Young Limited to a tribunal for constructive dismissal in relation to the way I was treated after making protected disclosures about widescale fraud at the EXETER SCHOOLS project over a year ago and an attempted cover up by the Haden Young Regional Director, Regional Operations Manager and Area Operations Manager. I can aslo confirm that the owner of an electrical sub-contractor to Haden Young Limited on the Exeter Schools project has now come forward with vital information to support my claim. In respect of the blacklisting, I made a further disclosure about the blacklisting procedures within Haden Young Limited and potentially the group, as I was concerned that I would become a victim of this process after making the disclosures about the fraud and the cover up. I hope this now clarifies the matter and ask anyone who has any information that could be of help to contact me via the e-mail link in the ‘View my complete profile’ section. posted by Alan @ Sunday, May 07, 2006 0 comments THE REMOVAL OF STEVE ACHESON FROM THE MRI PROJECT A big thank you goes out to Steve Johnson, the electrical engineer for sub-contractor Logic on the Manchester Royal Infirmary project at the time of the removal of electrican, Steve Acheson from the project (24 February 2006) . Mr Acheson had been able to gain access and employment on the MRI project, after being taken on during the Christmas break by Logic, a sub-contractor to TAC on the project. I recently spoke to Mr Johnson on 21 April 2006 and he informed me that he was approached by Rob MacIntyre of TAC, who informed him that he had been instructed by John Lawrence of Bovis (the main contractor) to have Mr Acheson removed from the project following discussions with Balfour Kilpatrick about Mr Acheson’s past involvement in disputes with them. Mr Johnson also informed me that he rejected Mr MacIntyre’s reasons for removing Mr Acheson from the project at the time, stating that he was very happy with Mr Acheson’s work and there was no reason for him to leave. He went on to inform me that Mr MacIntyre was insistent and Mr Acheson was removed from the project. I therefore contacted Mr MacIntyre of TAC later that day to discuss this with him and received a ‘no comment’, followed by a dial tone, which spoke volumes in itself. posted by Alan @ Sunday, May 07, 2006 0 comments DRAKE & SCULL - JUBILEE LINE EXTENSION STRIKE RINGLEADERS I was e-mailed on 4 May 2006, by a gentleman who was an electrical supervisor for Drake & Scull on the Jubilee Line Extension project. I therefore contacted him and he informed me that during the last strike on the project, that himself and the other supervisors were gathered into a room at the Guildford Street office and asked to take part in a process to identify the ringleaders and instigators of the strike action. This included the completion of a questionnaire. The gentleman went on to inform me that he refused to make any detrimental comments about any of the striking operatives in the meeting, but was aware that other supervisors had cooperated in identifying certain individuals to management. In light of recent press articles, I’d like to point out the following from my post dated 23 March 2006 for clarification. “This information was passed on with a view to preventing SOME of the electricians from gaining employment on future Drake & Scull projects and was circulated to the Drake & Scull Engineering regional labour managers”. posted by Alan @ Sunday, May 07, 2006 0 comments Tuesday, April 18, 2006 CONTACT Can I please ask everyone to use the e-mail link in the 'view my complete profile' section to contact me as the site does not enable me to reply to posts. The 'view my complete profile' section can be accessed using the link at the foot of the 'About Me' section on the right of the screen. posted by Alan @ Tuesday, April 18, 2006 0 comments
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Post by bryan on Jun 1, 2006 16:41:35 GMT
Note the item on the sacking of Steve Acheson & others. I was on the picket line at Manchester Royal Infirmary today and they say they are determined to continue until the matter is settled. They have been there with their banners for over two weeks already. The T&G has refused to repudiate their action despite being approached by the bosses. Their claims for dismissal for trade union activities/blacklisting is already with the Tribunal.
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Post by bryan on Jun 6, 2006 15:39:14 GMT
Steve Keevil contacted NORTHERN VOICES after reading the report on Blacklisted electricians in issue No.6. We put him in touch with the Blacklisted Electricians blog and what followed is reported below:
Monday, June 05, 2006 STEVE KEEVIL
I was contacted on 2 June 2006 by a Mr Steve Keevil, who was employed as an electrician by Drake & Scull on the Jubilee Line Extension Project.
Mr Keevil informed me that he been unable to find work with another JIB company since leaving the employment of Drake & Scull on the Jubilee Line Extension project.
Mr Keevil also recalled two incidents that occurred shortly after leaving the JLE project where he had attempted to find work.
1. The first was when Mr Keevil was supplied to The Excel Project via an agency. Mr Keevil reported to the site and was duly inducted and set about work.
Mr Keevil recalled that Drake & Scull were also working on the Excel Project at the time and that a number of Drake & Scull employees had recognised him during that first day.
That evening on returning home, Mr Keevil received a telephone call from the agency instructing him not to return to the Excel project the following morning.
2. The second incident was when Mr Keevil was supplied to Balfour Kilpatrick at the Pfizer project via another agency.
Mr Keevil informed me that he reported to the project and was again duly inducted and issued with his PPE equipment. However, at about 2pm that day, Mr Keevil was informed by the Balfour Kilpatrick supervisor that it was too late to set out any work for him and he was sent home for the rest of the day.
On his journey home from the Pfizer project Mr Keevil was contacted by his wife, who informed him that she had received a telephone call from the agency instructing Mr Keevil not to return to the Pfizer project the following morning.
posted by Alan @ Monday, June 05, 2006 0 comments
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Post by michele cryer on Jun 10, 2006 23:02:23 GMT
Hi Bryan. Thanks for continuing to post in this forum, in spite of all our recent 'visitors'..they must have noticed the declining number of posts on here and decided to donate a few! ;D
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Post by Mitch on Jun 12, 2006 17:19:44 GMT
Hi Bryan. Thanks for continuing to post in this forum, in spite of all our recent 'visitors'..they must have noticed the declining number of posts on here and decided to donate a few! ;D Ha ha you minx - when we go quiet on the web forum, it usually means we are being pretty active on the ground - oh boy, have we been busy. Just off to do a bit of leafletting for the jumble sale and drop in Fred Petty's mugs ;D
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Post by michele cryer on Jun 13, 2006 16:20:24 GMT
Thanks Mitch...you are a darlin'!!
Sorry I haven't managed to get going with the leafletting yet, must admit this heat has fair worn me out and got me feet swelling, but I really do want to do some serious leafletting over the next few days...the only trouble at the mo. is trying to sort me house out too!!
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Post by michele cryer on Jun 17, 2006 21:26:32 GMT
I'm posting this on behalf of Brian who's been having trouble posting on the site this week:
Message from Blacklisted Manchester electricians:
WE CALL UPON YOUR SUPPORT TGWU 6/1400/7 MANCHESTER CONTRACTING BRANCH
This letter is an appeal to all trade unionists, asking for your fincial, moral & active support for 3 TGWU
representatives, unfairly dismissed on May 12th, 2006 by victimisation through blacklisting on the 6 year PFI
hospital project at Manchester Royal Infirmary.
This gets rid of the only organised workforce among the 1,000 workers on the site. Tribunal victories at
Phizers in Kent and the DAF dispute in Piccadilly Gardens were the factors contributing to these sackings.
The DAF dispute was won on grounds of 'dismissal for trade union membership' of the TGWU.
Because of the endevours by so many different bodies behind our dismissal, we are fighting against a
stubborn intransigence for reinstatement, we therefore envisage a dispute that will run the duration of this
project.
It is our human right to be able to earn a living. It is our human right not to be placed on an employers list denying us employment. It is our human right to be trade unionists. It is our human right not to be conspired against by rogue employers.
We ask for your support at this injustice suffered by union members for seeking justice in the workplace and
urge you to highjlight our struggle.
Yours Fraternally,
Steve Acheson, Union Rep & Branch Secretary, TGWU 6/1400/7
For more info Tel: 07950 780070
For donations contact Treasurer: Graham Bowker, 1, Wells Close, Droylsden, Manchester M43 6BY.
Cheques can be made payable to 'Manchester Rank & File'.
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Post by Mitch on Jun 18, 2006 9:26:08 GMT
I've emailed this news Brian to Pendle Trades Council.
Best, and solidarity to the Electricians
Mitch
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Post by michele cryer on Jun 26, 2006 11:40:03 GMT
Thanks Mitch...sorry I didn't spot this post earlier...seems I'm losing track of new posts again!!
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Post by bryan on Nov 16, 2006 13:54:26 GMT
This is on the www.blacklistedelectricians.blogspot.com site: Monday, September 25, 2006 A WAINWRIGHT V HADEN YOUNG LIMITED My tribunal will commence on 14 November 2006 in Birmingham at Phoenix House, 1-3 Newhall Street, Birmingham, B3 3NH - Telephone: 0121 236 6051 - The tribunal is set to last 9 days. posted by Alan @ Monday, September 25, 2006 0 comments STEVE ACHESON - TRIBUNAL UPDATE I was recently informed by Steve Acheson that himself, Tony Jones and Graham Bowker, all electricians from the lists have a four-day tribunal hearing against Logic for unfair dismissal on 15 January 2005. Mr Acheson also has a detriment case against Logic to be heard on the same date on the basis that Logic were induced by Balfour Kilpatrick Limited to dismiss Mr Acheson for previous trade union activity. posted by Alan @ Monday, September 25, 2006 0 comments
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Post by wow gold on Aug 22, 2008 0:42:10 GMT
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