FURIOUS anti-blacklisting campaigners in Scotland called on Deputy First Minister Nicola Sturgeon to reverse a SNP-led Dundee Council decision naming blacklister BAM Construction as preferred bidder for the city’s £45 million Victoria and Albert (V&A) museum development.

Construction unions GMB and Ucatt along with the Blacklist Support Group want BAM and other firms to be excluded from tendering for any further Scottish public-sector contracts until they compensate the 582 workers in Scotland that they blacklisted.

GMB national officer Justin Bowden called on Nicola Sturgeon, as minister responsible for construction procurement policy, to intervene.