Delegation led by Unite union will travel to Amsterdam to protest outside Royal Bam鈥檚 annual general meeting

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Bam has become the latest major contractor to have its overseas meetings targeted by anti-blacklisting protesters from the UK.

Unite, Britain鈥檚 biggest union, announced that would send a delegation to Amsterdam to protest outside tomorrow鈥檚 annual general meeting of Bam Nuttall鈥檚 Dutch parent company Royal Bam.

Unite is running against the 拢15bn Crossrail project and its delegation to Holland is protesting at Bam Nuttall鈥檚 role on the London scheme within joint venture contractor BFK which is made up of Bam Nuttall, Ferrovial and Kier.

Earlier this month, by a delegation made up of the GMB union and the Blacklist Support Group.

Unite assistant general secretary, Gail Cartmail, who will attend the protest in Amsterdam said: 鈥淏lacklisting ruins lives and we believe it is continuing today on Crossrail.

鈥淯nite believes that the people of Holland and Bam鈥檚 shareholders deserve to know about Bam鈥檚 behaviour elsewhere in Europe.

鈥淭his company is putting its reputation at serious risk by associating itself with blacklisting. Unite will use every legal means at its disposal to end this blight and to expose the companies and individuals that indulge in it.鈥�

The Unite delegation will include Unite shop steward Frank Morris who is currently , alleging that he lost his job on Crossrail after being blacklisted and victimised at the Westbourne Park site in west London.

The union鈥檚 campaign against Crossrail follows 微密圈鈥檚 exclusive revelations that two senior human resources managers working on Crossrail had close links with The Consulting Association (TCA), the blacklisting firm exposed and closed down in 2009.

In November, 微密圈 reported that Crossrail鈥檚 industrial relations manager and point of contact with TCA in his former human resources role at the contractor CB&I. Barron, who was employed by Bechtel to work on Crossrail, left his post shortly after 微密圈鈥檚 story was published.

Then, last month, it emerged that .

Bam Nuttall/Edmund Nuttall spend more than 拢38,000 on the services of TCA.

Bam Nuttall declined to comment.

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