Friday, February 15, 2013

Olympics workers cross-checked against unlawful blacklist

12:09 PM | Posted by ProJ | | Edit Post

Chuka Umunna

Shadow business secretary called me to action through the database of blacklisted

Twelve

staff to work on projects for the Olympic construction company Balfour Beatty has been compared to a blacklist illegal thousands more than two decades of people banned from working in the UK construction projects.

workers were then employed by the company that built the Olympic Aquatic Centre, but Labour has called for a full investigation. Chuka Umunna Shadow Secretary described the company blacklist of workers as a "national scandal".

Umunna, requiring action by the government in a parliamentary debate on the issue on Wednesday, said: "The workers have seen their livelihoods destroyed, his reputation tarnished rose ... just because health and safety or were a member of a union. "

The admission was made by Balfour Beatty at the Olympic Delivery Authority in a letter obtained by

building

Magazine

"In addition to investigating allegations of blacklisting as a whole, including those relating to public works projects, ministers should review the changes that should be made to ensure making the index and prevents this scandal does not happen again. "

  • Consulting Association, a company funded by 20 companies spent a database for the industry for 30 years. He was captured by the Information Office of the Commissioners in 2009, but only in the last year that the magnitude of the list appeared, causing a parliamentary inquiry commission investigation and prosecution against one of the founders presumed Cullum McAlpine Sir Robert McAlpine Ltd, a member of the founding family behind Sir Robert McAlpine, is due to appear before the committee on Scottish Affairs select next week.
  • The last revelation of the involvement of blacklists in the Olympic facilities is contained in a letter sent to the Olympic Delivery Authority (ODA) chief executive Dennis Hone Balfour Beatty Construction CEO Mike Peasland.
The correspondence, obtained by Building magazine, Peasland admits that his company uses the services of the organization blacklisted Consulting Association (TCA) in 2008.

He writes that companies within the Balfour Beatty Construction Services division of the United Kingdom, "used the services of the Association Council in February 2009, when the Office of the Information Commissioner aid offices Consulting Association ". He added: "We conducted an internal review of our operating companies in 2008 revealed that the Association has been used for consultation hiring 12 officers."


The admission follows the statement made by the former CEO Ian Kerr LOI in November before a Commons committee that Balfour Beatty, Sir Robert McAlpine and "maybe Skanska" participated Olympics blacklists.

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