Union Mergers

We've blogged quite a bit about mergers among companies. Here's the other side of the management-worker divide - a merger between Unite, the UK's biggest trade union, and USW, which represents over 1 million workers in the United States. The parties plan to establish the first global labor organization:

Officials at both unions view the proposals as the first step towards creating a global union that will ultimately house labour movements from the world's rising economic powers in Eastern Europe, Latin America and Asia.