10 June 2015

Victims in the blacklisting scandal are receiving compensation offers in a bid to persuade them drop their High Court claims.

Offers have been made to 11 workers with names on the blacklist, and range from £10,000 to £60,000.

Dave Smith, secretary of the Blacklist Support Group, and co-author of Blacklisted: The Secret War Between Big Business and Union Activists, commented; “Blacklisted workers currently receiving eye watering compensation offers to persuade us to drop our High Court claims…We are keen to see directors of multinational companies giving evidence under oath about their anti-democratic human rights conspiracy. The firms can take their pitiful compensation offers and poke it up their profit margin. We look forward to seeing them squirm in court”.

The GMB union believes that one worker, offered £60,000 in compensation, is realistically entitled to more than £320,000 based on the way in which his career was affected.

GMB legal officer Maria Ludkin said; “It is an indication that the defendants are worried about going to trial. We are looking forward to seeing them in court. The total value of our claim is £30m and we will be fighting for every penny.”