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<p>The details of mergers and takeovers are primarily a commercial matter for the
parties concerned.</p><p> </p><p>The Employment Relations Act 1999 introduced a statutory
recognition procedure that gave independent trade unions the right to apply to the
Central Arbitration Committee (CAC) to be recognised by an employer for collective
bargaining over pay, hours and holidays in respect of a group of workers in a particular
bargaining unit.</p><p> </p><p>Where an employer decides not to recognise or to derecognise
a trade union, the union can use the statutory recognition procedure. The CAC can
award recognition where a clear majority of the bargaining unit want it, and this
is established in most cases through a ballot of the workforce.</p>
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