UNIFI was a

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representing workers in the

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sector in

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. The name UNiFI was briefly adopted by the Barclays Group Staff Union in 1999. Later in the year, the union merged with the Banking, Insurance and Finance Union and the NatWest Staff Association, and the new organisation chose the very similar name "UNIFI". In 2004, UNIFI merged with Amicus, now part of

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. The organisation's

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was Ed Sweeney, and the national secretary was Rob MacGregor.Independent - Goodwin faces angry staff but RBS shareholders let him off the hook
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General Secretaries

:1999: Rory Murphy and Ed Sweeney

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