Police linked to blacklist of construction workers

Sun Mar 4 01:53:41 GMT 2012

Police are linked to blacklist of construction workers

Security services 'gave data to clandestine 
organisation funded by major names in building industry'
http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2012/mar/03/police-blacklist-link-construction-workers
http://www.911forum.org.uk/board/viewtopic.php?p=160320#160320

Daniel Boffey, policy editor  -  guardian.co.uk, 
Saturday 3 March 2012 21.57 GMT

The police or security services supplied 
information to a blacklist funded by the 
country's major construction firms that has kept 
thousands of people out of work over the past three decades.

The Information Commissioner's Office (ICO) has 
revealed that records that could only have come 
from the police or MI5 have been discovered in a 
vast database of files held on 3,200 victims who 
were deemed leftwing or troublesome.

The files were collected by the Consulting 
Association, a clandestine organisation funded by 
major names in the construction industry.

Its database was seized nearly three years ago, 
but the extraordinary nature of the information 
held has only now emerged, following an 
employment tribunal for one of the victims, Dave 
Smith, a 46-year-old engineer who had a 36-page 
file against his name and was victimised 
repeatedly for highlighting safety hazards on 
sites, including the presence of asbestos.

David Clancy, investigations manager at the ICO, 
told the central London tribunal adjudicating on 
Smith's claims against construction giant 
Carillion that "there is information on the 
Consulting Association files that I believe could 
only be supplied by the police or the security services".

Speaking to the Observer, Clancy added: "The 
information was so specific and it contained in 
effect operational information that wouldn't have 
formed anything other than a police record."

The scandal will be thrown open to further public 
exposure in the coming months as a class action 
by 100 victims against at least 39 companies is 
set to be pursued in the high court by Hugh 
Tomlinson QC, currently counsel for several of 
the phone-hacking claimants. The revelations will 
inevitably raise fresh questions about the 
probity of the police in a week in which its 
relationship with major news corporations, and 
News International in particular, has come under 
sharp focus. Last week the Leveson inquiry heard 
that the police were investigating a "network of 
corrupt officials" as part of their inquiries 
into phone hacking and police corruption.

Clancy said he was unable further to trace the 
specific sources of the information held in the 
Consulting Association files because it touched 
on individuals living across the country and stretched over three decades.

He added that the relationship between the 
Consulting Association and the police and 
security services appeared to have been nurtured 
when the organisation went under an earlier guise 
as the Economic League, at a time when the state 
was keen to liaise with major building firms to 
discover as much as it could about Irish 
construction workers amid the threat of IRA terrorism.

John McDonnell MP, who first raised the issue of 
blacklisting a decade ago, said he would demand a 
debate in parliament on what he described as 
collusion. "I am outraged at the systematic abuse 
of people's rights. This has destroyed people's 
lives, broken up families, ensured that people 
have not been able to earn a living. It has 
devastated people year after year, and nobody has 
listened to us. No one has been willing to 
believe the extent to which there has been 
collusion between police, security services and 
companies. It is all about the ability of 
companies to exploit workers and destroy anybody who stands up against them."

The existence of the secret blacklist was first 
exposed in 2009, when ICO investigators from the 
Information Commissioner's Office raided an 
unassuming office in Droitwich, Worcestershire.

The investigators uncovered an extensive database 
that was used by construction firms to vet 
workers they deemed to be trade unionists and 
troublesome  usually trade unionists. More than 
40 construction firms, including Balfour Beatty 
and Sir Robert McAlpine, had been funding the 
confidential database, which recorded workers' 
trade union activities and conduct at work.

The Consulting Association was closed down and a 
66-year-old private investigator, Ian Kerr, was 
fined £5,000 for administering the database, 
although the construction firms escaped 
prosecution. At Smith's tribunal, Carillion 
admitted that two of its subsidiaries covertly 
supplied information to the database to 
"penalise" Smith for being a trade unionist, even 
though he had "reasonably brought health and 
safety concerns to their attention". However, 
Smith lost his claim for £175,000 in lost income 
because he worked through an agency and was not directly employed by Carillion.

A spokesman for the Independent Police Complaints 
Commission said it had not yet received a 
complaint from the victims or the ICO.

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