Any dealings with AFI International?

Hi there,

I'm a Telecommunications Workers Union member and the company I'm locked 
out of right now has employed AFI International as a security contractor 
for all site locations. They videotape us constantly in an attempt to gain

injunctions in the courts to limit our picketing. 

Some pickets have rumours of intimidation, social engineering and outright

attacks by AFI members. Also, stormtrooper riot-gear tactics have been 
utilized to get scab busses into and out of compounds. (This was reported 
on the news.) They're like a paramilitary outfit minus the weaponry it 
seems. 

I live in Canada -- where I'm supposed to be protected by PIPEDA 
legislation -- but it doesn't seem to be doing much good these days. I've 
repeatedly asked these guys and their parent corporation to see their 
licensing and copies of the surveillance material and they always insist 
they can't / won't show me anything. 

I'm just wondering if any of you have had dealings with AFI (or similar 
groups) on the picket lines before? They seem to be escalating their 
engagement. Just yesterday, I was standing on a line and one of their 
members came out to the edge of the driveway and glared me down for about 
an hour. 

Also, managers I have never met before suddenly know my first name and are

starting to use it in an attempt to shake us up. I wasn't intimidated but 
some people were. 

We're only 44 days into the lockout. It seems the guys with guns and 
baseball bats have a new way of beating union members down these days. How

much can we expect these goons to step it up? What sort of tactics have
you 
employed to fight back at these guys without causing usable injunction 
material? Any comments? Any ideas?

Thanks!

p.s. Sorry cDc but this seems like something that __ought__ to get cross-
posted to your white hat group. *wink wink*