HERE, UNITE workers' unions to merge (500,000+ combined members) [View All]

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By LEIGH STROPE
The Associated Press
2/25/2004, 9:56 p.m. ET


WASHINGTON (AP) — Two unions representing hotel and restaurant employees and retail, textile and laundry workers are merging to create a single labor organization with more than 500,000 members.

The Hotel Employees and Restaurant Employees, called HERE, and the Union of Needletrades, Industrial and Textile Employees, known as UNITE, are scheduled to announce the merger Thursday, several union sources said, speaking on the condition of anonymity.

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