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UK: Secret document reveals police 'blacklisting'

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Law Human rights Policing Surveillance
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UK

06 March 2019

"A secret police document has revealed how the Metropolitan Police's Special Branch helped the illegal blacklisting of trade unionists - preventing them from getting jobs because of their political views..."

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UK: Secret document reveals police 'blacklisting' (BBC News, link):

"A secret police document has revealed how the Metropolitan Police's Special Branch helped the illegal blacklisting of trade unionists - preventing them from getting jobs because of their political views.

In one case, detectives suggested one individual was a terrorist, despite the claim being wrong.

The illegal practice - exposed ten years ago - involved major construction firms accessing secret files on 3,000 workers and their union activities."

Background: “Every Man a Capitalist”: The long history of monitoring ‘unsuitable’ workers in the UK (August 2013)

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