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TUC seeks to halt rise of 'union busters'

By Andrew Taylor, Employment Correspondent

Published: February 12 2008 02:00 | Last updated: February 12 2008 02:00

British employers are hiring aggressive US-style "union busting" consultants to persuade workers against joining trade unions, Brendan Barber, the TUC general secretary, warned today.

The TUC and its US equivalent, the American Federation of Labor and Congress of Industrial Organizations (AFL-CIO), are joining forces to "thwart employer efforts on both sides of the Atlantic to demonise trade unions and scare employees from joining up."

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