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CONSTRUCTION workers kept Labour conference a blacklister-free zone this week after a senior manager of a firm embroiled in the scandalous practice fled Manchester rather than face their wrath.
Lend Lease residential chief Richard Cook had been due to speak at a Monday afternoon fringe organised by Labour List on house-building.
But furious Ucatt delegates planned to picket the meeting over allegations the construction firm has blacklisted workers.
Apart from a bright spark of hope in the victory of the Gaza motion, this year’s conference lacked vision and purpose — we need to urgently reconnect Labour with its roots rather than weakly aping the flag-waving right, argues KIM JOHNSON MP
MARK FAIRHURST highlights the main issues facing officers in a long neglected service, and raised by front-line delegates at POA conference last week, including understaffing, violence, bullying and the ongoing denial of workers’ right to strike
