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UK: Police ‘covered up’ links with union blacklisting - Leaked minutes show senior officer met group targeting union activists

14 November 2014

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"Scotland Yard has been accused of seeking to cover up its involvement in the blacklisting of more than 3,200 construction workers following the emergence of minutes of a meeting between a senior officer in its anti-extremism unit and the organisation running the list.

The leaked document proves that as late as 2008 a detective chief inspector in the National Extremism Tactical Coordination Unit (Netcu) briefed members of the Consulting Association, the secretive organisation that ran the blacklist keeping people out of work for decades."

See the article: Police ‘covered up’ links with union blacklisting - Leaked minutes show senior officer met group targeting union activists
(Guardian, link)

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