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Blacklisters handed new details for their victims
Secret court order forces ICO to give workers’ information to group of eight blacklisting firms

Blacklisting construction firms have been handed the personal details of the very workers they blacklisted from the body that exposed the scandal in the first place.

Unions yesterday condemned the “national scandal and disgrace” of employers’ group The Construction Workers Compensation Scheme (TCWCS) obtaining the records through a court order.

Ucatt general secretary Steve Murphy said: “The main blacklisters have been handed lock, stock and barrel the files the ICO seized in 2009.

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