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17. RON WEBB
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TITLE National Secretary for Transport ORGANISATION Unite The past 18 months have been tough for Unite, the biggest union in the road transport industry. It's been many years since its staff have had to work so hard to represent their members.
With collapses, closures, consolidations and TUPE transfers affecting so many of its members, Unite and its well-known head Ron Webb have had to concentrate on the here and now, reacting to each piece of bad news as it hit the headlines.
Webb comes across as an unapologetic, unreconstructed unionist, but he's an experienced operator. Run-ins with major fleet operators have been few and far between recently. However, if we really do see the start of the recovery in Q3 next year, we can expect Webb and Unite to engage in some robust negotiations for 2011 pay deals.