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Unions pile on the pressure as Scottish Finance Secretary dodges call for blacklist inquiry
Trade unions piled pressure on Scottish Finance Secretary John Swinney to act yesterday as he again ducked calls for a blacklisting inquiry.
Officials from the construction industry's Unite and Ucatt unions offered a cool response after the SNP minister punted the prospect of a public inquiry off into the horizon.
Union warnings over the practice were first vindicated in 2009 when a raid on blacklist firm the Consulting Association retrieved a database of 3,200 names.
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