Here's the story:

Union welcomes 10 year ban for shop harasser

 http://www.tuc.org.uk/h_and_s/tuc-9361-f0.cfm#u3
"Retail union Usdaw has welcomed an Anti Social Behaviour Order (ASBO) banning a Newcastle man from verbally intimidating shop staff for 10 years. The order was served on David Fletcher on January 27 and bans him from entering the premises of any Tesco, B&Q, Safeway, Sainsbury, Morrisons, Somerfield, Matalan and Co-op in England and Wales. Fletcher is prohibited from contacting, interfering with or threatening any employee of these stores. He had been going into shops acting in an intimidating and aggressive manner towards staff. As staff were distracted by his verbal intimidation a team of people would be stealing goods from the shop. Usdaw general secretary John Hannett said: 'This is major breakthrough in using ASBOs to protect vulnerable retail staff as the severity of the ban sends out a clear signal to anyone who thinks they can verbally intimidate staff and get away with it. We’re delighted it is a ban that covers England and Wales as it means this man can’t just move somewhere else to make other shopworkers’ lives a misery.' "

This is the latest and worst in a string of cases where trade unions have been drawn into NIMBYite defences of crackdown policies, supposedly to "protect" workers - even though these same workers are also at risk from the government's attacks on civil liberties. Other examples include the idiotic calls for long sentences for "abuse" (including shouting) against emergency workers; support for fascistic policies which will see alleged troublemakers, such as people with psychological problems and people who become angry under the influence of inappropriate medications, denied the right to healthcare on the NHS; and support by rail and post sector unions for related crackdowns in their sectors.

While each sector of workers may have specific narrow interests in the suppression of others, the unions, by conspiring with the government crackdown agenda, are contributing to the destruction of freedom in Britain which will ultimately make the very existence of trade unions meaningless.

Trade union officials who support fascistic measures such as ASBOs should be treated as class traitors. Deal with them the same way as the IFTU collaborators in Iraq.