Workers Uniting; this will be the name of the trade union born from the merger between the British union Unite and the American union United Steelworkers (USW). The new trans-Atlantic organization will represent over 2.5 million people, and aim at "fighting the negative effects of global capital." (Ref. 080567)
On July 2, the main British union
merged with the main US union in the private sector, thus creating the first
trans-Atlantic union: Workers Uniting. Unite was already born from the merger,
last year, of the two main British unions: Transport and General Workers Union
and Amicus. This trade union represents over 1.8 million people in the banking,
aerospace, industrial and transportation sectors. USW represents workers in the
US and Canada, in different industries (metal, rubber, chemicals, pape
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