Unite trade union
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| Founded | 2007 |
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| Members | 1,282,671 (2016) |
| Head union | Workers Uniting |
| Affiliation | TUC, ICTU, AfF, CSEU, Labour (Britain),Labour (Ireland) |
| Key people | Len McCluskey (general secretary) |
| Office location | 128 Theobald's Road, Holborn, London |
| Country | United Kingdom & Ireland |
| Website | www |
Unite theUNION, commonly known as Unite, is a British and Irish trade union, formed on 1 May 2007, by the merger of Amicus and the Transport and General Workers' Union. It is the largest trade union in the UK and Ireland. The General Secretary of Unite is Len McCluskey.
On 2 July 2008, Unite signed an agreement to merge with the United Steelworkers to form a new global union entity called Workers Uniting which represents over 3 million members in the United Kingdom, the Republic of Ireland, North America and the Caribbean. Unite retains its separate identity in the United Kingdom.
As part of the merger process, a Joint Executive Council (formed of the executives of both the predecessor unions) took office on the vesting day. In March 2008, a new Executive Council for the expanded Union was elected, taking office on 1 May 2008 and having a three-year term.The Executive Council was tasked with putting a new Unite rulebook to a postal ballot of members during July 2008. The rule book was accepted by a majority of members and will not be subject to amendment until a Rules Conference is held.
The first reduced unified Unite Executive Council was elected in 2011
The first single General secretary of Unite Len McCluskey was elected in December 2010 on a platform of unification and standing for one term of office only.
The Unite special Rules Conference in 2010 agreed a rule change including a formula for how seats will be allocated on the UNITE Executive Council which takes office in 2011. There are a number of factions within Unite.
On the 9 October 2008 the executive council of Unite announced that there would be an election for the General Secretary (Amicus section), with a timetable of January/February 2009 for the election, the results being announced in March 2009. This election was for a fixed term until December 2010.
The Executive council also postponed the adoption of the new rule book and integration until May 2009.
This action was taken in light of the potential success of a legal challenge to Simpson's extension of tenure by a "single member" of the union.Jerry Hicks, a former member of the union's Executive and its General Purposes and Finance Committee and unfairly dismissed convenor of Rolls Royce at Bristol, disclosed at the outset that he was the person behind the challenge. He made the same legal challenge that Simpson deployed successfully on his predecessor Ken Jackson.
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