Inquiry spotlight on state spying on trade unions
by Bethany Rielly
A protest at police spying on lawful organisations held in 2018
TRADE unions are demanding answers on whether their legal and democratic activities were subjected to deep surveillance by a top-secret spycop unit over four decades.
A number of unions have been given core participant status in the undercover policing inquiry.
There has been an angry response to revelations that spycops with two top-secret units with the Metropolitan Police spied on trade unions and collected information that was passed on to blacklist firms.
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