Carillion statement from Blacklist Support Group

Carillon admitted in the High Court that they blacklisted workers who complained about safety on their building sites, while at the same time milking public sector contracts for millions. Workers on projects run by Carillon need to be paid and are entitled to their pensions but no more public money should be given to the bosses of the disgraced company. In any civilized society, these people would be facing criminal charges.

When you invite blacklisting human rights abusers to run the NHS and school meals, don’t be surprised when vampire capitalism attempts to suck the taxpayer dry. The government should bail out the NHS not Carillon or their bankers. The government should nationalise Carillon now at the current market value of their shares (nothing) and go further by banning all of the construction companies involved in the blacklisting human rights conspiracy from any publicly funded contracts.

Roy Bentham, blacklisted carpenter from Liverpool and BSG joint secretary commented:
“Carillion going bust to me is Karma.… Read on ...

Open Letter to Sadiq Khan

Save Walthamstow’s Town Square

To Sadiq Khan, Mayor of London
CC Deputy Mayor (Housing) James Murray

Dear Mr Khan,

I would like first to congratulate you on managing to secure 50% genuinely affordable homes in the former Holloway Prison redevelopment. I was also delighted to hear in your LBC phone-in with James O’Brien on 4th January that you are going to insist on a minimum of 50% genuinely affordable homes as a firm requirement for all agreements with developers on land under your control, and that you have redefined ‘affordable’ in terms of average income rather than the market values of properties. This seems to me to be a fine example of the Labour Party’s determination to stand up for the ordinary people of London in the face of pressures towards gentrification and the ‘ethnic cleansing’ of the less affluent out of the way of the better off, and finally of the super-rich.… Read on ...