Major anti-blacklisting breakthrough

In March 2013, trade unions achieved a major breakthrough by securing agreement from the employer representatives on the Construction Industry Joint Council (CIJC) responsible for the union-employer industrial Working Rule Agreement covering 500,000 construction workers to the insertion of a new anti-blacklisting clause in the joint agreement. The new clause, proposed by construction workers union UCATT, states: “The CIJC does not condone any form of blacklisting of any worker.”