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People we loved died not in freak accidents but because employers did not protect them and dismissed their concerns about health and safety, and governments let them get away with it.
 No worker or safety representative should ever be sacked, victimised or blacklisted for raising concerns about the lives and health of workers on site, as Frank Morris did at Cross Rail, as Steve Acheson did on many sites in the North West, and as many other blacklisted workers have done in construction and other workplaces across the UK. We support the Blacklist Support Group and the TUC in calling on the construction employers to: Own Up! Pay up! Clean up!
Using the utter lie that good health and safety is a burden on business, this government is dismantling the health and safety regulation and enforcement regimes that protect workers and, as a result, is putting workers at far greater risk of being injured, made ill or killed. Now more than ever it is essential that workers are able to speak out about the avoidable risks to their own health and safety, and that of their mates.
It is a crime against humanity that workers and safety reps who do speak out have their lives ruined through blacklisting. Any government participating in and allowing blacklisting to continue is committing a crime against those blacklisted, and against all workers as it condemns them to more risky workplaces.
Shame on any government that allows this abuse of human rights to continue.
David Cameron has declared war on health and safety, pledged to eliminate it, and his government is busy slashing the regulations and enforcement that protect workers. This government is creating unacceptable, intolerable workplace environments in which employers can do what they want and workers are prevented from protecting themselves.
Workers and their elected trade union safety representatives must be able to speak out about the dangers on site that threaten their lives and health, and must have legal backing in getting them put right, without fear of losing their jobs or their livelihoods by being blacklisted.
No-one should ever have to choose between having a job or having a life.
For more information contact FACK at 0161 636 7557 or 079298 00240
TUC Day of Action on Blacklisting 20th November 2013 website info
Source: FACK
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