Transatlantic Union Forms to Face Labor's Globalization Challenges

JOHANNESBURG--July 11, 2008--Written by Richard Finlayson, Senior International Editor for Industrial Info Resources (Sugar Land, Texas)--Unite, the United Kingdom's biggest union with over 2 million members, and United Steel Workers (USW), the largest private sector union in North America with over 1,800 local unions and 1.2 million members, signed an agreement to create the first operating global union, known as Workers Uniting. The new global trade union will represent 3 million working people covering all industrial sectors in the U.K., Ireland, U.S., Canada and the Caribbean.