Anti-blacklisting campaigners are to stage a nationwide tour of demonstrations targeting organisations and individuals involved in the scandal.

General union GMB announced yesterday that it will hold 10 demonstrations in a national “Crocodile Tears Tour” to shame 63 construction industry bosses named as blacklisters, who the union says have yet to come clean and apologise for their actions.

The protesters will also condemn use of the so-called “Nuremberg Defence” over blacklisting – managers who say they were “only obeying orders,” the excuse used by Nazis at war crimes trials.

The tour starts in Darlington on Tuesday next week, October 21.

Yesterday High Court action resumed through which 122 blacklisting victims are seeking compensation from companies who ensured trades union activists and workers who raised health and safety issues were denied work.

In 2009 the notorious Consulting Association was found to have used a database of 3,213 blacklisted workers which supplied their names to 44 companies.