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- 1 2 "Outsider breaks right's stranglehold on the AEEU", The Herald , 5 December 1995
- ↑ Undy, Roger (2008). Trade union merger strategies: purpose, process, and performance. Oxford University Press. pp. 201–202. ISBN 978-0-19-954494-3.
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