The Independent - London, March 9th, 2007
Workers have voted to create a powerful 2 million-strong "super union" with members at most FTSE 100 companies and ambitions to grow even bigger.
Leaders of the new "industrial giant", to be formed from a merger of the Transport and General Workers' Union (T&G) and Amicus, predicted that the as yet unnamed organisation would amalgamate with unions in Britain and abroad.
Derek Simpson, the general secretary of Amicus and co-leader of the new union, by far and away Britain's biggest, said it was a precursor to the creation of a single global union movement capable of challenging the power of m...
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