Local Labour Councillors have denied union infighting after the merger of the Transport and General Workers Union and Amicus was given the go ahead by less than 25% of elegible members.

In the T&GWU camp Tony Jones, Tony Page, Peter Ruhemann and Steve Waite were said to have demanded that the new union preserves traditional naming conventions whereby you could tell what a union stood for by its name, whilst former Amicus members Graham Hoskin, Chris Goodall and David Sutton were in favour of a generic name. "It's not true," said Tony Jones, "that we have had any disagreements over the matter. We all agreed that 'Unite' was a particularly poor name and instead have decided to put forward a joint proposal to the regional committee to change the new union's name to the National Union for Manufacturing, Professional, Transportation and Information Employees. I think the new name describes our members well."