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In the early 1980s, Mawu and Naawu spread to all parts of the country. They typically established a presence in a new area by focussing on a large or influential factory where news of struggle spread to neighbouring factories and communities. Often, after these unions targeted a factory, a dispute erupted; the industrial action then served to raise the profile of unionisation in general and in these unions in particular; a cadre of new leaders then emerged who set out to recruit in neighbouring workplaces; once a sufficient number of workplaces were organised, they launched a new branch. In this way the metal unions pioneered expansion for themselves and other Fosatu unions.