#TUC11 Among the recent Wikleaks cache of US diplomatic cables was one from the US London Embassy about the 2006 TUC Congress which provides a unique insight into the relationship between the TUC’s International Department and US diplomats:
http://cables.mrkva.eu/cable.php?id=76720
The latest cachet of US diplomatic cables published on line by Wikileaks includes several references to UK unions including UNISON. In particular they reveal that the highly effective union boycott of Hilton hotels in 2007 led to concern by the hotel group that ‘a conflict between US sanctions on Cuba and UK law banning discrimination, has instructed its employees not to violate local UK law, putting them on a potential collision course with US law’
http://wikileaks.org/cable/2007/02/07LONDON780.html
