Trade union merger
The Unite trade union is merging with an American trade union, as the BBC reports. This will mean, I’m sure, difficulties between the UK and US arms in terms of voting rights, policy positions, etc. Will their decision making be the trade union version of the EU - compromise building between independent bodies - or a single multi-national democracy, with the nationalist tensions that implies? We don’t know yet, according to the New Statesman, where a TUC official is quoted as saying:
They (Unite and USWA) seem to be focused on the politics first, rather than on creating an organisational structure and fitting the politics around it.