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BLACKLISTED workers say they have been vindicated by the public inquiry into undercover policing after it acknowledged this week that spycops had reported on trade unionists.
The judge-led inquiry has just finished the first phase of its investigation into abuses by officers serving in a secret Scotland Yard unit between 1968 and 1982.
Summing up the probe’s position so far on Monday, the counsel to the inquiry, David Barr KC, acknowledged that officers in the Special Demonstration Squad (SDS) had reported on trade unionists and that the senior officers could have passed on that information to blacklist firms.
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