Workers back union merger
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Workers in the public and private sectors voted Thursday to back the creation of the nation's biggest single trade union, which will end up representing about two million employees.
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United Auto Workers members passed a four-year contract agreement with Chrysler today despite significant dissent from some workers.
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The National Union of Mineworkers begins talks about merging with Britain's biggest rail union.
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Ford Motor Co.  on Wednesday said about 38,000 of its union workers have accepted its buyout offers, part of a broad restructuring effort at the second-largest U.S. automaker.
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A Chrysler LLC truck plant in the Detroit area on Wednesday voted to approve a proposed four-year contract, throwing the weight of a key plant behind the deal on a day of ratification voting expected to determine the fate of the controversial labor pact.
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Unions give their backing to a new deal offered by the US owner of car parts maker Turner & Newall to save its troubled pension scheme.
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Rival union federations have agreed to coordinate get-out-the-vote and other efforts for November.
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The United Auto Workers union won approval to represent workers at a new engine complex in Dundee owned by DaimlerChrysler AG, Mitsubishi Motors Corp.
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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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DES MOINES, Iowa  - U.S. Democratic presidential hopeful John Edwards won labor union backing on Monday from steelworkers and mineworkers, putting him ahead of rivals in declared union support, his campaign said.
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The bill would enable employees to unionize as soon as a majority signed cards saying they favored a union.
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One of the biggest U.S. trade unions made an unusual dual presidential endorsement of Democrat Hillary Clinton and Republican Mike Huckabee on Thursday, while Democrat John Edwards won the 2008 backing of the carpenters' union.
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DETROIT, Oct. 27 -- Members of the United Auto Workers approved a four-year contract with Chrysler on Saturday despite significant opposition, the union said.
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The joint leader of a new super-union gives his support to deputy leadership contender Jon Cruddas.
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Union members at P&O vote in favour of industrial action in protest at plans to cut at least 1,200 jobs.
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Hourly workers at four BF Goodrich tire factories in the United States and Canada have ratified a new labor agreement, the United Steelworkers of America said.
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A vote by members of the United Auto Workers (UAW) union on wage and benefit cuts at bankrupt car parts maker Delphi Corp.  saw strong support from several locals, but met stiff opposition at one New York unit.