Balfour Beatty wins first blacklist tribunal

An Employment Tribunal has found in favour of Balfour Beatty in a case brought by Mick Dooley, who claimed the firm used a blacklist to deny him work in the early 90s, it has been reported.

Dooley told the Tribunal that in 1993 he was given a job on a building site in central London, but was soon fired when Balfour Beatty found out that his name was on the blacklist run by Ian Kerr.

The Blacklist Support Group, a network set up for blacklisted workers, reports that the blacklisting ... (248 more words)

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