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UK: Business leaders want Commission crackdown on mega unions

By  |  May 7, 2013

Big players in the UK’s business world are calling for more jurisdiction to be handed to the Competition Commission in order to combat mega-unions they say are becoming too powerful. The UK’s largest union is Unite with 1.5 million members; it emerged as a result of a merger between the Transport & General Workers Union and Amicus. Those calling for the Competition Commission to be able to probe unions and potentially block union mergers compiled a report under the Institute of Directors; the IoD has offered proposals for how the Commission may prevent the threat of unions having so much power they distance themselves from “their original purpose,” according to the group.

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