Great Britain: PCS and Unite services unions are getting closer while RMT and TSSA transport unions are having a hard time taking it to the next level

Industrially, there is logic to the two unions working together where they both have members employed by the same organisations. However, this degree of overlap is relatively small, given that the vast majority of PCS membership is found in the public sector, especially the civil service, and the vast majority of Unite’s membership is found in the private sector. Where this overlap does take place is in areas of the public sector that have been privatised and contracted out. Examples are found in information technology and facilities companies like HP, Fujitsu and Cap Gemini, and in the Ministry of Defence and Equality and Human Rights Commission.  
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is failure. By Gregor Gall, Research Professor of Industrial Relations and Director of the Work and Employment Research Unit (WERU), University of Hertfordshire. (Ref. 120346)

Industrially, there is logic to the two unions working together where they both have members employed by the same organisations. However, this degree of overlap is relatively small, given that the vast majority of PCS membership is found in the public sector, especially the civil service, and the vast majority of Unite’s m

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