DEEMED A TERRORIST FOR FIGHTING FOR BETTER CONDITIONS.

       At last it is beginning to unravel in the public domain, the fact that employers have been running a blacklist for years. Though most trade unionists, those keen on health and safety and other activists have known all along, but what they couldn't be sure of was what information was listed against them, where did that information come from and of course its accuracy or otherwise. The fact that such blacklists are illegal is one thing but to have what appears to be confirmation that the police and MI5 were feeding the blacklist, blows a hole in the illusion that the police and MI5 etc. are there to protect us from criminals and terrorists. After all what is the terrorist or criminal element in pointing out to an employer that there is an asbestos danger in a particular workplace? It becomes obvious that the police and MI5 etc. are there to protect the wealth and power of those in control of the capitalist system. Anyone that in any way interferes with the profit making of our corporate masters is deemed an enemy and can be put on a blacklist that can have devastating effects on the individual and their family due to the fact that they will probably never again work at their trade. All this done with the help of the police and our secret services, who spout that they are there to protect “us”, from what? Are they there to protect us from those fighting for decent working conditions, proper health and safety regulations being followed. Idea that the police are there for law and order and to protect the public, is just for propaganda purposes, there might be a little spin off in that direction, but their main purpose is to protect the wealth of the powerful in this society. This from The Guardian.

STOP, TRADE UNIONIST

        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 (ICO) 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.

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SECRET BLACKLISTS, ILLEGAL, BUT HERE IN UK.

   

     We can assume that with rising unemployment and cost of living rising, most people that have a job will try to hold onto that pay packet. So imagine that your are punctual, your work output is above what is expected of you, and your disciplinary record is clean, you would feel that your job is secure. Well not necessarily so, you may have taken part in some union activity in the past and your name might be on a blacklist that you know nothing about. Employers pay big money to gain access to an illegal blacklist and hire and fire according to who is on the list. This is happening all over the country and recent cases have come to light at the London Olympic site. Workers have been fired, harassed and threatened on the strength of this secret and illegal blacklist. You can read the full story HERE.

        Today, Tuesday 1st March, there was a demonstration at Pudding Lane DLR against this victimisation and secret blacklists.

       This is just one more piece of evidence that the class war is in full swing as far as the employers are concerned. They will try to neutralise any individual that they think might stand up for their rights, there aim is to have a subservient workforce with no organised defence against attacks on their conditions. Giving them a free hand in hacking away at what they see as an impediment to their profits. Things like health and safety, wage rates and overtime rates, all these are seen as lost profit to them.

       The only answer is for us, the ordinary people to see the situation we live under for what it really is, total class war. Your working conditions and living standards are constantly under attack in the name of profit for the greedy pampered parasites that try to control every aspect of our lives. It doesn't have to be that way, there are alternatives, think anarchism.

 

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