WORLD SOCIAL FORUM:  Trade Unions to Attempt More Unity
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BRUSSELS, Jan 25 (IPS) - The world's largest trade union network will  be campaigning to make globalisation more âfavourable, equal and  secureâ for workers when it joins the fifth World Social Forum  (WSF) in Porto Alegre, Brazil later this week.
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Trade unions opened their annual conference amid threats of strike action ahead of a general election expected in 2005, urging Prime Minister Tony Blair's government to tackle concerns about pensions and job cuts.
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The United Steelworkers of America and the Paper, Allied-Industrial, Chemical and Energy Workers International Union (PACE) said they will ask their members to approve a merger of the two organizations, which would form the largest industrial labor union in North America.
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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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BRUSSELS, Nov 10 (IPS) - Trade unions are coming together to protest EU  proposals on liberalising services in the internal market.
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Employers should allow their workers to befriend, chat and "poke" each other through online networking sites while at work, Britain's largest labor federation said Thursday.
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A group of world figures calls for efforts to heal the growing divide between Muslim and Western societies. Send us your views.
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Trade unions have agreed to give the government fresh proposals aimed at enhancing productivity, increase the standard of living and attract investment, possibly in exchange of the original budget proposal to ...
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Mediators at the World Trade Organization made a bid to salvage a global free trade deal on Tuesday by proposing compromises to overcome impasses in the key areas of agriculture and industrial goods.
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South African unions and government officials meet to try and thrash out a pay deal, as more strikes loom next week.
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Responding to the G4 nations&#39; bid for expanded membership and their inclusion in the UN Security Council, the Handelsblatt in DÃ¼sseldorf stressed that those who want to make progress must join forces.
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LONDON, Oct 18  (IPS) - Under as brave a banner as ''Another  world is possible'', the third European Social  Forum  that concluded in London Sunday was always open to the  question-but just  how?
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A conference in Cardiff is to launch a campaign for proposals for more assembly powers to be implemented.
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Bloomberg - Aug. 30 (Bloomberg) -- At a union hall in Detroit packed with 800 members of the AFL-CIO and their families, Democratic presidential candidate and New York Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton promises to break the mold on trade.
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LONDON, Oct 16 (IPS) - The meeting on 'The Faultline in British  Politics' at the opening of the European Social  Forum in  London Friday came to resemble at least a little the frontline in  Iraq. Civil  society seemed at civil war.
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DURBAN, South Africa  - Developing countries have pledged to band together to force the West to help tackle their problems, ranging from poverty to reform of the United Nations.
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Unions and government officials are meeting in South Africa on Friday in an attempt to thrash out a pay deal to avert a new wave of strikes next week.