英国最大的建筑公司中有八家说，10月10日，他们将补偿被据称自1990年代中期以来运营的非法“黑名单”损坏的建筑行业工人，并包括3200多个名字。

Workers were added to the list for reasons that included health and safety issues, employment history, trade union activity and personal relationships, says Justin Bowden, national officer of GMB, a leading U.K. construction trade union, and media reports.

鲍登（Bowden）补充说，一些工人因麻烦而被列出，他说薪酬索赔的总价值可能会涉及“数亿英镑”。

同意薪酬和解的承包商是：Balfour Beatty Plc。，Carillion Plc，Costain Group Plc，Kier Group plc。，Laing O’Rourke Ltd.，Robert McAlpine Ltd.，Skanska U.K. U.K. Plc。和Vinci Plc。

在一份联合声明中，两家公司对黑名单运营商的参与表示歉意，黑名单运营商是一家名为咨询协会的私人公司，以及“其数据库可能对任何个人建筑工人产生的影响”。

他们还呼吁列表的其他用户参加薪酬计划。

Details on 3,213 workers were kept on a register used by more than 40 firms, according to an 2009 investigation by the Information Commissioner's Office (ICO), the U.K.’s data protection regulator.

根据ICO的数据，咨询协会（TCA）现在已倒闭，收取订阅承包商的年费为4,800美元。

“We are talking about 3,213 people who were, in some cases, denied employment for 15 years,” adds Bowden. Only about 20% of the affected workers have so far been traced.

TCA所有者伊恩·克尔（Ian Kerr）因违反数据保护法而被罚款近8,000美元。一个月后，ICO命令14个承包商停止使用该公司的数据。

Allegations of blacklisting on London’s $24-billion Crossrail project were withdrawn last month after a year-long campaign by the UNITE union.

该争议是由分包商在为BFK合资企业的工作结束后解雇的28名电工引发的，该公司由西班牙的Ferrovial Agroman S.A.拥有，与英国的Bam Bam Bam Nutall Ltd.和Kier Construction Ltd.拥有。

The dispute ended last month when the union agreed that no blacklisting had occurred. BFK conceded that the subcontract's completion “could have been handled better."