At the end of June, the GMB trade union scored a rare success. It cajoled Asda into recognising the union on behalf of tens of thousands of the company’s staff. The deal was notable because Britain’s third largest supermarket group is owned by the world’s largest retailer, Wal-Mart which does not recognise unions in its home base of the US

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Foreign Investment: Can Tata turn a profit? The sticky trap for the sale seems to have been the unions involved. And the deal they’ve gotten out of two companies looks like a pretty sweet one. Tata has promised not to move production to ...

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