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President Leo W. Gerard this week led a team of USW officials who traveled to Bournemouth, England, south of London, to attend a UNITE conference. The Steelworkers’ leaders and top officials from the former Amicus union, the largest in the United Kingdom and Ireland, had their first working group meeting following the signing of an agreement in Ottawa to pursue a possible merger.

The new union would be the first global trade union and would represent more than 3.4 million members in the US, Canada, UK and Ireland. It would be the world’s biggest union and would be expected to attract other union organizations throughout the world into membership.

To hear excerpts of Gerard’s speech tune in to the next edition of POWERcast. To hear Ken Neumann, USW’s National Director for Canada, answer some of the many questions surrounding the Steelworkers’ global agenda and what it means for members, click here.

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