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THE case against the so-called “GMB three” accused of wilful obstruction of the highway dramatically collapsed today.
Three of the general union’s officers were arrested in May last year during a lawful industrial dispute with waste management company Biffa in Wealden, East Sussex.
But they were found not guilty at Brighton Law Courts today after the crown put forward no evidence.
A past confrontation permanently shaped the methods the state will use to protect employers against any claims by their employees, writes MATT WRACK, but unions are readying to face the challenge
Forty years on, TONY DUBBINS revisits the Wapping dispute to argue that Murdoch’s real aim was union-busting – enabled by Thatcherite laws, police violence, compliant unions and a complicit media