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Workers swoop on blacklister Laing
Protest held days after death on union-barred London site

Angry protesters descended on union-busting firm Laing O'Rourke on Saturday following a tragic death on a London construction site.

Blacklist Support Group (BSG) activists furious at its refusal to allow union access to its projects demonstrated outside the company's multimillion-pound Alder Hey Hospital site in Liverpool.

Electrician and BSG chairman Steve Acheson said the firm was continuing to bar workers despite facing a major High Court case for using the notorious Consulting Association blacklist to weed out trade unionists.

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