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Secret file of workers uncovered in 2009 after raid by Information Commissioner’s Office on Consulting Association

Postal workers have been urged to make official requests for information if they suspect their names were kept on a blacklist of thousands of staff.

The secret file of over 3,200 mainly construction workers was uncovered in 2009 after a raid by the Information Commissioner’s Office on the Consulting Association.

Workers were included on the blacklist for raising health and safety concerns on building sites, or merely for being union activists, and were often denied work for years as a result.

It has recently been revealed that other workers, including firefighters, teachers and postal staff, also had their details included on the blacklist.

Dave Smith, of the Blacklist Support Group, told the annual conference of the Communication Workers Union that postal workers should contact the ICO if they suspected their names were on the blacklist. “People in this hall will definitely have been spied on by undercover police,” he told the Bournemouth conference.

Smith said: “We used to be accused of being conspiracy theorists but we can now prove without a shadow of a doubt that blacklisting went on in the construction industry.”

Smith held up a 36-page file kept on him as part of the blacklist, which included details of his phone numbers, car registration number as well as information on his family.

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Who are the ICO?

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Who are the ICO?

Information Commissioners Office. https://ico.org.uk/" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

The ICO is the UK's independent body set up to uphold information rights