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Unions call for independence poll benefit clarity
STUC asks SNP, Labour, Tories and Lib Dems: 'What's in it for us?'

Scotland's trade unions demanded answers over welfare, currency and industry from both sides of the independence debate yesterday as their members decide how to vote in September's referendum.

The Yes Scotland and Better Together campaigns have worked hard to win support from Scotland's 27 trade unions and their 630,000 members.

But the Scottish TUC has posed tough questions for both groups in its second report on the future of Scotland, launched in Edinburgh yesterday.

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