Terrorist injunction over blacklist fight

Blacklist campaigners staged a protest outside the Royal Courts of Justice in London this morning where a construction worker is facing an injunction under the Prevention of Terrorism Act in a bid to stop him picketing a power station.

Scottish & Southern Energy is applying for an injunction against Steve Acheson of Denton, Manchester.

The injunction is being sought to prevent Acheson from protesting at Fiddlers Ferry power station where he claims he was denied work on the scheme because of information held about him on the construction industry blacklist.
 
The injunction is under the Prevention of Terrorism Act and seeks to show that Acheson, by constant picketing of the site, represents a threat to the energy supplies of this country. 

 
The basis of the application is that by picketing the site he is committing a trespass on the firm's property; that having issued leaflets to workers on the site calling for 'direct action' he is 'inciting' the workforce to commit acts contrary to the national interest which may impact on energy supplies and that he has, at times, acted in a way that might have intimidated the workforce. 
 
One campaigner said: "Steve is a trade unionist not a terrorist."