"PhilD" wrote in message
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David Boothroyd wrote in message
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ASLEF have been one of the traditional unions who keep very specifically
to one field of employment. It has not sought to merge with other
unions, as has been the tendency from others. The RMT (product of the
NUR and NUS merger of the early 1990s) has been on recruiting drives in
the professions it didn't traditionally have members, and not only in
the rail industry (NUMAST have been annoyed at them attempting to
recruit officers in merchant vessels, traditionally their territory,
in addition to the ratings which the NUS had).

For the benefit of those not in the know, please could you define
"NUS"? NUR is obviously National Union of Railwaymen, but NUS? I
always thought that was National Union of Students! Presumably this
is another NUS.


NUS was the National Union of Seamen which amalgamated with the NUR in
(IIRC) the early nineties.