Overview

These are a grouping of non-state core participants who make up Category E (‘Trades unions and trades union members’) within the Undercover Policing Inquiry. 

For the most part, they work through the Non-State Core Participants’ Coordinating Group. The category is made up of individuals and union organisations, including the Blacklist Support Group.

Trade unions designated as core participants are:

  • Fire Brigades Union (FBU)
  • National Union of Mineworkers (NUM)
  • Union of Construction, Allied Trades and Technicians (UCATT), now part of Unite

Procedural

CSV
Date
Title
Document Type
Topic
Trade Unions – Submissions in response to CTI Note of 2 March 2017
Submissions
Restriction order approach, Anonymity

References

CSV
Author(s)
Title
Publisher
Year
Dave Smith and Phil Chamberlain
Dave Smith and Phil Chamberlain, 27 February 2015: On the blacklist: how did the UK’s top building firms get secret information on their workers?
The Guardian
Rob Evans
Covert police unit spied on trade union members, whistleblower reveals
The Guardian
Eveline Lubbers
The Shrewsbury pickets, political policing and the state
Undercover Research Group, Public Interest Law Centre