30 year collusion revealed between UK police,security services & companies to blacklist leftwing

[snagglepuss]

or troublesome workers i.e. whistle blowers like " Dave Smith, a 46-year-old engineer who had a 36-page file against his name and was victimised repeatedly for highlighting safety hazards on sites, including the presence of asbestos."


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The police or security services supplied information to a blacklist funded by the country's major construction firms that has kept thousands of people out of work over the past three decades.

The Information Commissioner's Office has revealed that records that could only have come from the police or MI5 have been discovered in a vast database of files held on 3,200 victims who were deemed leftwing or troublesome.

The files were collected by the Consulting Association, a clandestine organisation funded by major names in the construction industry.

Its database was seized nearly three years ago, but the extraordinary nature of the information held has only now emerged, following an employment tribunal for one of the victims, Dave Smith, a 46-year-old engineer who had a 36-page file against his name and was victimised repeatedly for highlighting safety hazards on sites, including the presence of asbestos.






http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2012/mar/03/police-blacklist-link-construction-workers

[JDPriestly]

1. K&R

I wonder where they got the idea to create a blacklist. Could they have borrowed it from US corporations? I have wondered about this but have no definite evidence regarding it.

One day, however, I was called into the office of the boss of a company that I was working for. This boss never spoke to me. We had no relationship. I was a hard worker, totally dedicated to my job. I loved my job.

This boss whom I hardly knew suddenly started lecturing me about how he did not like certain organizations. He named certain other organizations of which he approved. At the time, I just could not figure out why he would call me into his office to discuss this topic. It did not interest me in the slightest. I decided he was a bit eccentric -- very odd.

Some time later, I realized that another member of my family belonged to one of the organizations of which my boss disapproved and that this family member received mail for the organization at my address.

It may have been a coincidence, but it was a kind of strange one.

[Vincardog]

2. I believe your suspicions are well founded. I believe that there is a black list

in IT anyway. I can not prove it but I have felt the effects of it.
Anyone who does not believe there is an organized to move this country and the works to the radical right does not want to face reality.

[glinda]

4. agreed

[snagglepuss]

5. Was this pre-internet? I t sounds very suspicious but it's hard to

understand how any company would get information from snail mail.

[JDPriestly]

6. My family member was on a snail mail list because of membership in an organization.

This was not that long ago. I was quite astounded as you can imagine.

[LeftishBrit]

3. Wow.

How very McCarthyite. And how very disgusting.

[Zalatix]

7. Lock the offenders in an asbestos-filled room.