Revealed: Crossrail hired security firm to monitor trade unionists

Bosses of huge publicly funded project paid firm 59,000 over three years, documents show

Senior managers at Crossrail, the huge publicly funded rail project in London, hired a corporate security company to monitor trade unionists who were campaigning against blacklisting across the construction industry, previously secret documents reveal.

The managers paid 59,000 to the company, Control Risks, over three years. They said the monitoring of the trade unionists was part of work to protect the project from outside threats.