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London’s Crossrail project and its contractors have been accused in court of a string of serious safety breaches by a worker who claims to have been blacklisted while working on the £15bn project.

In an employment tribunal claim obtained by ÐÇ¿Õ´«Ã½, electrician Frank Morris alleges tunnelling workers, including himself, were sidelined or dismissed for raising significant safety issues on the scheme - Europe’s largest construction project.

Morris alleges this culminated in the dismissal last September of himself and 26 other workers employed by Electrical Installations Services (EIS), a labour subcontractor of Crossrail’s western tunnels contractor BFK - a joint venture comprising Bam Nuttall, Ferrovial and Kier.

The news comes as the Unite union - which is funding Morris’ legal action - launched a lobbying campaign against Crossrail, accusing it of neglecting workers’ rights and failing to properly investigate links between itself and now defunct blacklisting firm The Consulting Association.

Morris’ claim, which has been lodged at the Central London Employment Tribunal, is against EIS, BFK and Crossrail Ltd, and alleges that the Unite shop steward was blacklisted on the project. The claim alleges that Morris was removed from his current duties and told to work in a cabin in which he was isolated from other workers after he told BFK in