Unite's £1.5 Million Blacklisting Collusion Inquiry - Where's The Report?
For fifteen years, blacklisted workers have been asked for their votes and their trust on promises that the truth would finally come out about Unite's complicity in blacklisting and the cover-up of evidence I first presented to the union in 2005 and 2006. That key evidence about the Consulting Association and a separate blacklist containing the names of more than 500 workers went to Unite regional official Mick Tuff and the then General Secretary, Derek Simpson. We now know that evidence was buried. It then took Steve Acheson and me another three years of pain and persistence before the Consulting Association was finally exposed. When information began to emerge that senior union officials had themselves been involved in blacklisting members, I continued working to expose that part of the scandal. I published numerous "Bent Union Officials" posts on this website, setting out the evidence I had uncovered. At a time when access to information online was far less devel...