UK construction workers are demanding that police step down from an investigation into a blacklist of workers used to deny employment during the building of Olympic venues, as the blacklist is believed to have originated from the police in the first place.
The Blacklist Support Group says the London Metropolitan police, through covert surveillance and data gathering, colluded with the Consulting Association to form a list that was sold to multinationals like Skanska and Sir Robert McAlpine during work on the Olympics.
“Most of the people on the blacklist are trade union members from the construction industry but there are also journalists, elected politicians, academics, lawyers and environmental activists,” the Blacklist Support Group (BSG) said in an email.
