The Burke Group has been involved in a series of union busting campaigns in the UK since 2001, involving major employers including Amazon, Calor Gas, T-Mobile and Virgin Atlantic Airlines. When GPMU tried to organise Amazon workers it ran into a TBG counter campaign it claimed was “the most aggressive campaign it had ever encountered and accused management of sacking a union activist and committing other unfair practices.”
Companies using Private Intellegence companies to spy on activists:
Threat Response International (agent: Evelyn Le Chêne) gathered info and ran a database on tens of 1000s of activists including names, addresses, national insurance numbers and health. Used by British Aerospace, Group 4 and others. Linked to Risk and Crisis Analysis, R&CA Publications (registered in Rochester) Adrian Franks (Evelyn's son) also involved as was a Martin Hogbin. Barrie Gane was also part of Threat Response - also worked for Group 4 and was a deputy head of MI6
Other groups used are Brays and Pinkertons
For fuller info: Spinwatch