LABOUR:  International Unions to Explore Merger
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BRUSSELS, Dec 1 (IPS) - An international conference next week will debate  the creation of a new world trade union organisation.
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Union trade regulators asked to probe 'one country, single store' policy
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Description: Labor leaders are trying to find ways to reverse decades of dwindling membership caused, they say, by outsourcing and globalization.
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DETROIT, Dec. 14 â With membership in the United Automobile Workers union at its lowest level since World War II, the president of the U.A.W., Ron Gettelfinger, left open the possibility on Thursday of a merger with another union.
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U.S. airline labor unions, hungry to reclaim wage and benefit concessions, are busily issuing demands in exchange for their support for a potential merger, as they try to influence back-room talks.
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Labour's ruling body convenes to discuss party funding proposals which some fear would end its link with trade unions.
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UAL Corp.'s United Airlines and Continental Airlines have held preliminary talks about a potential merger as consolidation in the airline industry heats up, a source familiar with the situation said on Wednesday.
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The UK's two biggest co-operatives agree terms of a merger that would form the world's largest such group.
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Steel companies are feeling the pressure to be big or consolidate after the merger of the worldÂs largest and second-largest steel producers.
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LAKSHMI Mittal, the billionaire steel magnate who was controversially aided by Tony Blair after donating Â£125,000 to the Labour party in 2001, is performing a double merger to create the world&#39;s largest steelmaker by output.
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Lakshmi Mittal, one of the UK's  wealthiest men, will merge his steel assets and buy  International Steel Group Inc. in a deal worth $17.8 billion to  form the world's largest steel company.
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The proposed merger of French energy group Suez and state-owned Gaz de France (GDF) hit last-ditch problems amid shareholder wrangling and a court victory for trade unions which threatened to hold up the deal.
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BRUSSELS, Jan 22 (IPS) - The International Trade Union Confederation (ITUC)  has decided controversially to start a dialogue with the official  All China Federation of Trade Unions (ACFTU).
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Airbus bosses are meeting with union leaders to discuss the latest plans for its proposed redundancies.
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Johannesburg - Public sector unions will on Monday start consulting with their members on whether to accept or reject the latest 6.2% wage increase offer by government.
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The UK's two biggest co-operatives begin talks that may lead to a merger.
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A committee that deals with antitrust issues plans to look into the proposed $3.1 billion merger next week. The search giant and its rivals, Microsoft and Yahoo, are expected to testify.