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    :: Thursday, January 13, 2005 ::

    United Steelworkers' latest merger to create 1.25-million-member union USWA news release
    PITTSBURGH/NASHVILLE/TORONTO, Jan. 11 /CNW/ - The International Executive Boards of the United Steelworkers of America and the Paper, Allied Industrial, Chemical and Energy Workers International Union (PACE) have voted unanimously to merge.

    Merger of the two unions will create the largest and most powerful industrial union in North America, with over 850,000 active members in over 8,000 bargaining units in the United States, Canada and the Caribbean.
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