Adopt Euro - union leader.North trade union leader, Kevin Curran, has backed calls for the public to have their say on the Euro. He has joined with other influential union figures to send a letter to Tony Blair urging him to hold a referendum on the Euro by next Spring. The letter also warns the delay threatens jobs. In the letter ahead of Monday's Government news on the timing of any referendum, the union officials said adopting the single currency would help deliver a strong economy. To rule it out for the life of this Parliament would be a victory for the anti-European scaremongers and would sacrifice British influence in Brussels. The letter was signed by Mr Curran, the new general secretary of the GMB GMB (in Britain) General, Municipal and Boilermakers (Trade Union) , former TUC TUC (in Britain and South Africa) Trades Union Congress TUC n abbr (BRIT) (= Trades Union Congress) → federación nacional de sindicatos TUC n abbr (Brit) (= General Secretary John Monks, Tony Dubbins, general secretary of the Graphical Paper and Media Union, Ed Sweeney, general secretary of the finance union Unify and Mike Leahy, general secretary of the Iron and Steel Trades Confederation The Iron and Steel Trades Confederation was a British trade union for metal-workers and allied groups. It was formed as a merger of five existing steel-workers' unions in 1917. . |
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