Blacklists a good thing for the economy?

Gorgeous_George

I believe in the death penalty. I accept that mistakes will happen but, I believe that it is better to hang the wrong person occasionally than not to hang the right person every time.

Blacklists are probably wrong - a quick phonecall to a previous employer would normally suffice.

Maybe the fact that someone is Irish will improve their chances of gaining employment - at least they are not English. The English must be avoided at all costs because the English press say the English are lazy.

GG

geoffky

I knew des warran and ricky tomlinson (the royal family fame) who was blacklisted all his life after the shrewsbury picket in the 70s and it wrecked the guys life...he was jailed for thinking (conspiracy) ...the economic league have been doing this blacklist for 40 years...it was a ex of these that they have found this list..

baileysbattlebus

http://www.indymedia.org.uk/en/2009/03/423627.html

Personally I think the whole thing stinks. I agree with geoffky, which is unusual to say the least.

Safety should be paramount in these jobs - they can be dangerous enough -

My son works in the construction industry and about a year ago a colleague of his badly injured his face when a scaffolding plank that hadn't been secured slipped. The site manager was terrified H&SE would get involved and asked the guy to say it had been his own fault - which he did, he was worried he would lose his job.

No way is that right - he could have been killed. And all they were worried about was the Health and Safety Executive.

1echidna

baileysbattlebus wrote: »

http://www.indymedia.org.uk/en/2009/03/423627.html

Personally I think the whole thing stinks. I agree with geoffky, which is unusual to say the least.

Safety should be paramount in these jobs - they can be dangerous enough -

My son works in the construction industry and about a year ago a colleague of his badly injured his face when a scaffolding plank that hadn't been secured slipped. The site manager was terrified H&SE would get involved and asked the guy to say it had been his own fault - which he did, he was worried he would lose his job.

No way is that right - he could have been killed. And all they were worried about was the Health and Safety Executive.

You are of course right, cowboy builders should be made to reform or go out of business and no one should be penalised for going through the proper channels, as I have said, the Health and Safety Executive, but we could do without soap box lawyers, militants setting themselves up as experts and acting with ulterior motives with safety as a smokescreen. Where for example did that myth that it took two men to operate any ladder come from? (I understand that there is a requirement but only on ladders above a certain height).

ess0two

1echidna wrote: »

Your behind the times mate, BP sold Grangemouth Refinery a few years ago.

Maybe so,but why are you so beat up about a 7% payrise.

1echidna

ess0two wrote: »

Maybe so,but why are you so beat up about a 7% payrise.

If I thought it was a fair increase, bearing in mind what they already earn, for the work they do I wouldn't be 'beat up' as you put it.

1984ReturnsForReal_2

1echidna wrote: »

I refer to union outrage that employerers using blacklists to vet potential employees. I see it as in the public interest that militants are kept out of employment in the public interest unless we want a return to the mad days last century. After all people with medical conditions are often denied employment for much less valid reasons.

This is what has come of our education system.

1echidna

1984ReturnsForReal wrote: »

This is what has come of our education system.

Yes I can see a couple of places where editing would have been appropriate had I spared the time. However I was educated a fair while ago and only in a technical subject at undergraduate level in the UK so you need not blame a decline in British Education. :rotfl: :rotfl: :rotfl:

1984ReturnsForReal_2

1echidna wrote: »

Yes I can see a couple of places where editing would have been appropriate had I spared the time. However I was educated a fair while ago and only in a technical subject at undergraduate level in the UK so you need not blame a decline in British Education. :rotfl: :rotfl: :rotfl:

Thats ok then...

I will put you on the he is foreign educated blacklist then..

lol

1echidna

1984ReturnsForReal wrote: »

Thats ok then...

I will put you on the he is foreign educated blacklist then..

lol

Oh yes I am on an employment blacklist alright, but not due to being a foreigner, my education or my militancy but I won't go into that. It is not the end of the world you know, as many more are finding out in this recession.