The dispute stems from an intralabor conflict that has followed the failed merger of the hotel workers' union and the apparel workers' union, whose president, Bruce Raynor, is also president of the Hillman foundation.
Most political analysts believe that breakdown is a good sign for Mr. Corzine, because Mr. Florio's campaign has tried to portray Mr. Corzine as a Wall Street robber baron whose corporate mergers cost thousands of workers their jobs.
The $30,000 cost of the sculptures was paid by the Union of Needletrades, Industrial and Textile Employees, which was created by a merger of the garment workers and another union five years ago.
They had planned public appearances in the British zone, where they would convince the West German population of the necessity of a merger of the two workers' parties.
This year, Mr. Raynor called for the end of the merger of Unite, the apparel workers' union, with HERE, the Hotel Employees and Restaurant Employees International Union.
Plans for a super union that will involve nearly two and a half million members from the GMB, T&G and the union Amicus - which is itself a merger of the old engineering workers union and the MSF union - have started.
At BXL Coal Mine, the workers' demands for social insurance premiums were not satisfied after the merger of the mine, and hundreds of workers blocked the mining work for a month.
Still, in Congress Mr. Mineta took some positions on transportation issues that were not generally on the Republican agenda, including protection of workers hurt by airline mergers.
The bank had been owned by Unite Here, a union formed by the 2004 merger of the nation's main apparel workers union and the nation's main hotel workers union.
Throughout the 20th Century the company underwent various mergers and acquisitions until Tetley's employed thousands of workers in Leeds and owned about 1,000 pubs.
