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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.
