WHEN we started the anti-blacklisting campaign, we concentrated our efforts on exposing the conspiracy by big business and the police.
It was directors of multinational corporations who ran the notorious anti-union Economic League and Consulting Association blacklists — an operation that lasted five decades and involved a two-way sharing of intelligence about union activists between company executives and Britain’s secretive political police units.
Over the past 12 years, uncovering corporate and state wrongdoing has led to new legislation, a select committee investigation, record compensation, a public apology in the High Court and a dedicated union strand in the ongoing public inquiry into undercover policing.