BUILDING workers are to protest outside a police station in the north-east against the “intimidation” of a colleague who took part in a demonstration at a building site.

Construction workers in Teesside are staging regular demonstrations at a site at Wilton where an energy-from-waste plant is being built.

Unions say developers are exploiting cheap foreign labour to undercut national pay agreements.

Phil Whitehurst, a national officer of the GMB union which is representing the man, said that a police officer had pulled a protester into a van eight weeks ago and taken his name and address.

Police later visited the man at home and told him to report to a police station on October 19 to be cautioned, which would give him a criminal record.

“This is police intimidation of protesters at its very worst,” said Mr Whitehurst.

The protest will take place outside Eston police station at 5.45pm on Monday.