Labour union protests have already forced the cabinet to act.
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German labour union IG Metall had given Thyssenkrupp until Dec.
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Labour union members, Islamists and leftists were among the victims.
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DE> budget airline Germanwings, the Ufo labour union said Friday.
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Germany's biggest labour union, the influential IG Metall, welcomed Tesla's plan.
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Users should start thinking like a traditional labour union, says Mr Wenger.
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Britain's largest labour union has also scheduled 24-hour stoppages on Aug.
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The labour union is seeking a 5.5 percent pay rise over 12 months.
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Britain's biggest labour union recently called for a criminal investigation into key individuals involved.
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The company said its largest labour union is preparing another ballot for industrial action.
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So the Tunisian General Labour Union (UGTT), the country's largest, stepped in to mediate.
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The JICT Labour Union had originally planned to extend the action until Aug. 10.
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Germany's biggest labour union, the influential IG Metall, was quick to welcome Tesla's plan.
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A labour union on Tuesday called for the evacuation of oil workers from the region.
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GERMAN BDI BUSINESS LOBBY, DGB LABOUR UNION JOINTLY CALL ON BERLIN TO BOOST PUBLIC INVESTMENT
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The UFO labour union is obligated to "maintain industrial peace," Lufthansa said in a statement.
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Ude Adigwe, an organiser with the GMB labour union in Scotland, said the measure was unacceptable.
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GM Korea and its labour union failed to reach a wage deal by the Friday deadline.
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Banks were closed on Monday and the main labour union went on strike, threatening further paralysis.
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The deal remains subject to a vote by labour union members, mediator Nils Dalseide told reporters.
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SPANISH LABOUR UNION CALLS IBERIA AIRLINE GROUND STAFF STRIKE ACROSS SPAIN ON ALL MONDAYS FROM SEPT.
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The CGT labour union has called for another big national street protest in Paris on June 14.
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"Production will resume any moment," Lumumba Okugbara, acting general secretary of oil labour union PENGASSAN, told Reuters.
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GM Korea has been seeking concessions from the labour union and government support to engineer a turnaround.
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However, France's biggest labour union the CFDT, and the smaller hardline FO union will not join the protest.
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VW and the IG Metall labour union resume pay talks for about 21000,216.0 staff at western German plants.
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The reduction in headcount was first reported by Bloomberg, citing a representative of the hard-left CGT labour union.
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So effective negotiation with internet firms might require collective action: and the formation, perhaps, of a "data-labour union".
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The Tunisian General Labour Union, the country's largest, wants a higher minimum wage and price controls on staple goods.
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Germany's Verdi labour union has objected strongly to a merger, saying that at least 10,000 jobs are at risk.
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SEOUL, April 20 (Reuters) - General Motors' South Korean unit and its labour union plan to continue talks until 5 p.m.
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Like his predecessors, he has to court politicians, bureaucrats and a politically active post office masters' group and labour union.
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Two branches of powerful Algerian labour union UGTA, representing tens of thousands of workers, also opposed the re-election plan.
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The Verdi labour union said that it would not hold more warning strikes ahead of wage negotiations planned for Jan. 23.
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"Everyday is a struggle," said Rukumini V. Puttaswamy, a tailor for 17 years and now head of the Garment Labour Union.
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Germany's biggest labour union called on Tuesday for a 2107.4 percent pay rise for Volkswagen workers in the carmaker's home market.
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Labour union Verdi and employers reached an agreement for security staffers at Germany's airports, business association BDLS said early on Thursday.
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However, Commerzbank supervisory board member Stefan Wittmann, representing labour union Verdi, signalled strong resistance to any takeover attempt from an Italian bank.
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South Africa's largest labour union had threatened a nationwide strike over planned large-scale job losses in the public and private sectors.
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"It's all about defunding us," says Randi Weingarten, the president of the American Federation of Teachers (AFT), a labour union with 1.7m members.
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Kuroda, speaking in front of labour union representatives, also said gains in wages are needed to ensure inflation accelerates in a sustainable manner.
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Britain's biggest labour union Unite, which represents more than 13,700 Interserve employees and is the largest union at the company, said http://bit.
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Ozkan Atar, general secretary of the labour union at the plant, said the protest started after 10 union members were fired on Monday.
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Rumors of sweeping job cuts were confirmed by labour union sources on Wednesday, with staff in Switzerland and Germany among those badly hit.
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The head of the airline's labour union said the suit was filed by some of Garuda's Indonesia's staff, and not the airline itself.
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Rumours of sweeping job cuts were confirmed by labour union sources on Wednesday, with staff in Switzerland and Germany among those badly hit.
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She described that as "oppression" and said it was one of the reasons she is helping to establish the Accounting Bro'Sis Labour Union.
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Hyundai's labour union called on the company to withdraw the move, saying that will decrease wages of existing workers and create job insecurity.
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The company's labour union in South Korea conducted its first nationwide, full-day walkout in 12 years on Monday over demands for wage increases.
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"SHAMBOLIC MISMANAGEMENT" Britain's biggest labour union Unite, which represents over 13,700 Interserve employees and is the largest union at the company, said http://bit.
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"Women normally share their experiences only after quitting their jobs," said S. Thivyarakhini of the all-women Tamil Nadu Textile and Common Labour Union.
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A GM Korea spokesman said the company would continue to work with the government and labour union to secure support for its viability plan.
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The service is being run by the Tamil Nadu Textile and Common Labour Union, one of the largest women workers' unions in India's textile hub.
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In the days that followed, two leading political parties and the country's biggest labour union - longtime establishment supporters of the president — echoed the army's call.
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Mladek was due to discuss the loan with Finance Minister Andrej Babis on Wednesday, after Babis met OKD management and labour union officials on Tuesday.
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"We want the government surveys as soon as possible," said Makoto Nakazawa, head of the Central Market Labour Union and a 30-year Tsukiji veteran.
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Meanwhile, GM's South Korean labour union on Thursday has decided not to go on a strike for the time being, a union source told Reuters.
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The head of PPC's main labour union GENOP/DEH, which represents the group's 18,000 workers, warned of industrial action should the government sell PPC units.
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FRANKFURT, Oct 24 (Reuters) - Germany's biggest labour union called on Tuesday for a 4.83 percent pay rise for Volkswagen workers in the carmaker's home market.
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Lufthansa has agreed with its cabin crew labour union to enter arbitration over a wage dispute, the airline and the union said, averting further strikes.
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AMSTERDAM, June 19 (Reuters) - The Netherlands' largest labour union called for a strike of "unlimited duration" among its 12,000 regional transportation workers, beginning June 25.
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In 261 a crippling strike called at General Motors by the United Auto Workers (UAW), the industry's main labour union, dragged on for 255 days.
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South Africa's steel sector is facing catastrophe and ArcelorMittal may have to close down if the government does not act soon, labour union Solidarity said.
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"The backdrop (of falling oil) means that banks must be prepared for rising losses," Jensen of the right-wing Progress Party told a labour union conference.
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But hours after the announcement, the Labour Union Congress, which represents workers across sectors, said it would resist the hike, which came into effect on Wednesday.
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Most adults in the ramshackle town of 100,000 don't have a regular job, according to a local labour union and without income from trading, tensions rise.
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"There is still a wide gap between the sides both on job cuts for ground staff and reducing flight personnel's wages," a labour union source said.
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A second round of wage talks covering 11,000 workers at T-Systems, Deutsche Telekom's IT services arm, ended without result on Wednesday, labour union Verdi said.
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"Best thing for any reasonable company to do is evacuate its workforce," said Cogent Ojobor, chairman of the Warri branch of the Nupeng oil labour union.
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On Thursday, Hyundai Motor's South Korean labour union warned that the tariffs could lead to the shutdown of the automaker's U.S. factory, putting 20,000 jobs at risk.
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Both banks on Sunday confirmed talks about a merger, prompting labour union concerns about possible job losses and questions from analysts about the merits of a combination.
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"We want to send a clear signal to employers with these massive strikes," Frank Bsirske, head of Verdi, Germany's biggest labour union for service sector employees, said.
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Second, although the Supreme Court can overturn precedents, and did so this month, when it overturned a ruling from 1977 on labour union fees, it prefers not to.
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Prosecutors had charged Dentsu for making Takahashi and three others work overtime beyond limits agreed with the company's labour union between October and December 2015, Japanese media reported.
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"It all looks like it is going to be requested," said Carnero, a representative for UGT, the main labour union at Seat, referring to the potential temporary layoffs.
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"Workers didn't let them in because they want to cancel Hellenic Petroleum's fire-sale", Panagiotis Ofthalmides, the head of their labour union representing about 2,000 workers, told Reuters.
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Following the latest developments, Cogent Ojobor, the chairman of the Warri branch of the Nupeng oil labour union, told Reuters that the oil companies should be evacuating their workers.
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The agreement between labour union IG Metall and the Suedwestmetall employers' federation, struck overnight, foresees a 27.53 percent pay raise from April and other payments spread over 227.5 months.
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Earlier in April, German airline Lufthansa cancelled some of its flights after labour union Verdi said it would extend strikes to airports to apply more pressure in pay talks.
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The airline has put forward a plan to its labour union to furlough 5,000 cabin crew from next month for as long as a year, a spokesperson told Reuters.
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BERLIN, Sept 10 (Reuters) - Customers of Deutsche Bank's Postbank unit must brace for new walkouts after wage talks with Germany's biggest lender failed, labour union Verdi said on Tuesday.
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HANOVER, Germany, May 221 (Reuters) - Volkswagen and Germany's powerful IG Metall labour union agreed a 23.8 percent pay increase for around 120,000 workers at the carmaker's western German plants.
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Labour union ADEDY, which represents about half a million of civil servants, says the changes the administration is trying to usher through parliament would hobble the right to strike.
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"On paper, many mills will show you that committees exist but they are not real," said S. Thivyarakhini of the all-women Tamil Nadu Textile and Common Labour Union.
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Unifor labour union said 70 employees would be laid off effective Thursday at a Nova Scotia facility contracted by CN to handle vehicles shipped in and out of Canada.
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Tanjusay from the labour union said the practice of ordering women to wear high heels is widespread across the Philippines, especially in industries such as retail, restaurants, airlines and hotels.
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However, budget airline Eurowings cancelled around 60 flights on Tuesday due to a strike by some cabin crew in a separate pay dispute between management and the Verdi labour union.
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YENAGOA, Nigeria, May 19 (Reuters) - A Nigerian oil labour union on Friday called for the shutdown of all Exxon Mobil Corp facilities in the Niger Delta, a union representative said.
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Germany's Verdi labour union on Sunday renewed its objections to a merger, saying that tens of thousands of jobs were at risk and that a tie-up added no value.
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SEOUL, Aug 24 (Reuters) - Hyundai Motor on Wednesday reached a tentative wage pact with its South Korean labour union, potentially avoiding major production losses at the automaker's biggest manufacturing base.
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OSLO, March 18 (Reuters) - The Norwegian prime minister's office will host a meeting on Wednesday to discuss the situation of the country's airlines industry, labour union Parat said on Wednesday.
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DORTMUND, Germany, May 2 (Reuters) - German labour union IG Metall demanded on Tuesday that industrial company Thyssenkrupp end talks to merge its European steel business with that of India's Tata Steel.
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The labour union had initially demanded an increase of 6 percent over 12 months while employers had offered 4.2 percent over 20183 months and a one-off payment of 400 euros.
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"We've understood that there is no real will among employers to compromise from the outset," labour union negotiator Asle Reime, who will represent oil workers, told Reuters ahead of the talks.
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Labour union Solidarity, which represents mostly skilled employees, said its members supported plans to go on strike next month or in January in a dispute over how the company handles investor relations.
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MADRID, Dec 18 (Reuters) - An Airbus labour union called for a 24-hour strike on Wednesday at the aircraft manufacturer's plants near Seville, Spain, as the company announced talks on cost cuts.
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A spokesperson for labour union FNV, which represents cabin workers, told the ANP news agency it would seek fair compensation for both those who were moving and those whose jobs were in limbo.
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Peripheral bonds received an additional boost after a key court rejected a bid by Italy's biggest labour union to hold a referendum on recent rule changes that made it easier to fire workers.
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ABUJA, July 13 (Reuters) - Workers resumed at MTN Nigeria on Friday after the country's labour union picketed the South African telecoms company over the rights of workers to join unions, the company said.
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FRANKFURT, Feb 21 (Reuters) - Carmaker Volkswagen and labour union IG Metall reached a wage agreement for more than 120,000 workers in Germany in a fourth round of talks, the union said on Wednesday.
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Chairman Lee Sang-hoon was indicted by prosecutors in Seoul for his alleged involvement in sabotaging labour union activities between 2013 and 2016, just a few months after taking control of the board.
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The walkout, the result of a pay dispute with labour union Verdi, started at Duessseldorf and Hamburg airports at 5 am local time (0400 GMT) and is due to last until 8 pm.
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Adding to pressure on the government, Nourredine Taboubi, head of the labour union UGTT, demanded the minimum wage and aid for the poor be raised within a week, state news agency TAP said.
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Sagnet, who has since finished his degree and written two books, now works as an advocate with the Italian General Confederation of Labour union, CGIL, but lives with the constant threat of retribution.
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Swiss labour union Unia, which was involved in talks between the company and its workers, said the cuts planned at Richemont had been "massively reduced" as renegotiated severance packages helped support voluntary departures.
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FRANKFURT, Dec 13 (Reuters) - The German labour union Verdi does not expect a merger anytime soon between the nation's two biggest private banks - Deutsche Bank and Commerzbank - a union official said on Thursday.
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FRANKFURT, March 8 (Reuters) - German labour union Verdi called targeted strikes for some workers at Deutsche Telekom from Friday after a second round of talks failed to produce a wage offer from management.
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FRANKFURT, March 25 (Reuters) - Thyssenkrupp will cut 3,000 jobs at its steel unit by 2026 as part of a wage deal it struck with powerful labour union IG Metall, it said on Wednesday.
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Looking to the future, Cosatu, the labour union federation and an ally of the ANC, is openly backing Mr Zuma's deputy, Cyril Ramaphosa, to become ANC president (and by implication the country's next president).
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PARIS, May 23 (Reuters) - The leading labour union at the Paris subway company on Monday announced an open-ended strike that would start a week before the Euro 2016 soccer tournament opens in France.
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PARIS, Sept 20 (Reuters) - France's hard-left CGT labour union has urged its workers to reduce electricity output on Thursday as part of a nationwide protest led by the CGT against government labour reforms.
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Various other rallies were planned for later in the day and pro-independence labour union confederation IAC announced a general strike in Catalonia on Friday against labour laws which unions say infringe workers' rights.
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The Nigerian Labour Congress (NLC), the umbrella labour union in Africa's most populous nation, shut down MTN operations in Nigeria since Monday over claims that the telecoms firm had refused workers from becoming union members.
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ATHENS, Oct 4 (Reuters) - Part-time workers and the hard-core unemployed have almost tripled during Greece's debt crisis despite a recent drop in the jobless rate, the largest labour union GSEE said on Wednesday.
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Indicated unchanged Some 12,500 employees of Deutsche Telekom are expected to join walkouts on Tuesday as they push for a 0.83 percent pay hike and job security in ongoing wage talks, labour union Verdi said.
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"We are not against the treaty in principle but it is clear that the Swiss government and negotiating team must guarantee that we can defend our pay independently," labour union official Daniel Lampart told SRF.
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The powerful Verdi labour union, which sits on the supervisory boards of both banks, has voiced fierce objections to a merger, saying that as many as 30,000 jobs are at risk over the long term.
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BERLIN, July 14 (Reuters) - Workers at seven Amazon sites across Germany will go on strike over pay for at least two days this week starting on Sunday night going into Monday, labour union Verdi said.
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Separately, a third round of wage talks between Deutsche Telekom unit T-Systems and labour union Verdi ended with no agreement, and a fourth round scheduled for next week was cancelled, Verdi said on Wednesday.
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The two consortia bidding for Thyssenkrupp's 16 billion euro elevator division have signed a fair owner agreement, a key demand by labour union IG Metall to protect jobs, the union and a company spokesman said.
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German labour union IG Metall and a key employer group agreed late on Monday on a 4.3 percent wage rise spread over 27 months, setting a benchmark for millions of workers across Europe's largest economy.
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TUNIS, July 30 (Reuters) - Tunisian airport employees plan to strike on Wednesday and Thursday, disrupting the reviving tourist trade, unless the government meets demands for improved working conditions, a labour union official said on Monday.
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ALGIERS, March 6 (Reuters) - Two branches of powerful Algerian labour union UGTA, representing tens of thousands of workers, oppose a plan by President Abdelaziz Bouteflika to seek re-election, they said in a statement on Wednesday.
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The labour union said an additional plant will exacerbate excess production capacity at the automaker, which is struggling with sluggish exports to the United States and other countries and posted a plunge in quarterly net profit.
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The call for stoppages from June 2 onwards was made by the CGT labour union, which is already spearheading weekly rail strikes and other protests over labour law reforms that would make hiring and firing easier.
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FRANKFURT, Feb 5 (Reuters) - Industrial workers and employers in Germany planned on Monday to resume talks after a series of 24-hour strikes over pay and working hours last week, the IG Metall labour union said.
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"Then they rejoin the workforce but are treated as new employees and start at the bottom again, foregoing benefits of permanent workers," said Saroja Kannappa of the Garment Labour Union, which represents more than 4,000 workers.
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A coalition of major Canadian telecoms, film and TV-related companies, cultural organizations, one labour union, and the national broadcaster have joined forces to propose a government-led website blocking regime to stamp out media piracy.
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ALGIERS, March 11 (Reuters) - Algeria's biggest labour union UGTA said on Monday that change is necessary but must be peaceful in the country where tens of thousands of people have been demonstrating against President Abdelaziz Bouteflika.
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WARSAW, April 26 (Reuters) - The largest labour union at Poland's national airline LOT will begin a strike on May 1 that could lead to delays at Warsaw Chopin airport, the head of the ZZPPiL union said.
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Industri Energi, the largest labour union representing drilling workers, last month agreed to a deal, while the smaller Safe said it would ask its members to vote on the offer made by the Norwegian Shipowners' Association.
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ATHENS, Nov 27 (Reuters) - Workers at Greece's Public Power Corp (PPC) launched a two-day strike on Wednesday to protest a draft law aimed at reforming the troubled utility, its largest labour union GENOP/DEH said.
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For more news, click The Swiss luxury good company has reached an agreement with employees on a new round of job cuts, a labour union said on Friday, adding the layoffs were smaller than originally planned.
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Citing health and safety issues, the Philippines' labour department said companies can no longer compel women to wear high heels, after four women lodged a complaint to a labour union which took the matter to the authorities.
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"In many instances, workers are not even given a pay slip telling them what they have earned and what has been deducted," said Thivya Sesuraj, advisor to the all women Tamilnadu Textile and Common Labour Union (TTCU).
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JAKARTA, May 9 (Reuters) - A union workers' strike next week is expected to disrupt shipping operations at Jakarta's main port, which handles the bulk of international shipments for Southeast Asia's biggest economy, a labour union official said.
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"It would be good for us all if this was done by early February," Rainer Dulger told German weekly WirtschaftsWoche in an interview, adding the goal was to resolve a dispute with powerful labour union IG Metall.
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LUSAKA, Aug 6 (Reuters) - Glencore's Zambian Mopani Copper Mines unit has lifted its suspension of production at an underground mine that followed the death of three miners in an accident, a labour union official said on Saturday.
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The broader index was pulled lower by falls in heavyweight South Korea where Samsung shares tumbled more than 2 percent after the chipmaker's chairman continued in his role despite an indictment for allegedly sabotaging labour union activities.
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ZURICH, Dec 9 (Reuters) - Swiss luxury good company Richemont has reached an agreement with employees on a new round of job cuts, a labour union said on Friday, adding that the layoffs were smaller than originally planned.
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OSLO, May 29 (Reuters) - Around 200 Norwegian offshore oil and gas workers plan to go on strike on June 4 unless wage negotiations lead to a deal with with employers, the Lederne labour union said on Wednesday.
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The deal between labour union IG Metall and the Suedwestmetall employers' federation foresees a pay rise of 4.3 percent from April and other payments spread over 27 months, IG Metall's Roman Zitzelsberger told reporters after 13-hour talks.
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Indicated 0.3 percent higher The telecoms group has struck an agreement with labour union Verdi on telecommuting arrangements for its workers, management board member Christian Illek and Verdi board member Lothar Schroeder told Handelsblatt daily in an interview.
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BERN, Jan 9 (Reuters) - Switzerland's labour union federation insisted on Thursday that measures to protect Swiss wages from cross-border competition were a red line not to be crossed in Bern's stalled treaty talks with the European Union.
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Italy's biggest retail bank has signed an accord with trade unions to cut part of the staff of the two Veneto banks it took over earlier this month through early retirements, the UILCA labour union said on Thursday .
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Lufthansa's deputy chair Christine Behle, who represents labour union Verdi on the company's supervisory board, told Reuters on Thursday that she expected it to take at least a week or two until a carve-up deal had been agreed.
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BOEBLINGEN, Germany, Jan 24 (Reuters) - German industrial employers and powerful labour union IG Metall failed to reach an agreement on wages in regional wage talks on Wednesday, and both sides said they would consider how to proceed going forward.
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Jeeva Balamurugan, general secretary of the all-women Tamilnadu Textile and Common Labour Union, said factory bosses knew the pills they provided could disrupt women's periods yet still handed them out freely - aiming to keep the staff at work.
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In an open letter published online last month ahead of the president's email, Tozen, a labour union representing mostly foreign workers in several industries across Japan, and its Japan Times chapter demanded a full retraction of the style changes.
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Indicated 1.6 percent lower Cabin crew at Lufthansa's budget airlines Germanwings and Eurowings are to go out on strike on Thursday for 24 hours in a dispute over pay and working conditions, the UFO labour union said on Wednesday.
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Shell workers at Nigeria's Bonga oil field in the southern Niger Delta are being evacuated following a militant threat, a labour union official said on Monday as the vice president met oil majors to discuss a surge in violence.
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Johan Botha, deputy general secretary for labour union Solidarity, said Denel management had told union officials on Monday that staff salary payments for October and beyond were at risk because of the severe liquidity woes the company is facing.
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SEOUL, Oct 12 (Reuters) - Hyundai Motor reached a tentative wage pact with its South Korean labour union on Wednesday, a union official told Reuters, after the automaker's worst-ever industrial strike disrupted output at its key domestic production base.
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OSLO, Oct 11 (Reuters) - Norwegian oil service workers have ended a strike that disrupted the drilling of new oil and gas wells on the country's offshore energy industry, the Industri Energi labour union said in a statement on Tuesday.
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Other members of the coalition include the CBC (Canada's national broadcaster), Rogers (one of the "big three" telecom companies, which also owns numerous media properties), labour union Unifor, and the Toronto International Film Festival, among other companies and organizations.
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ZURICH, July 12 (Reuters) - The head of Switzerland's influential SGB labour union federation has suggested the country could break a political impasse over a stalled treaty with the European Union by increasing its financial contribution to poorer EU members.
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German conglomerate Thyssenkrupp rose 12.6% after saying it would cut 3,000 jobs at its steel unit by 2026, with no forced layoffs until March 31, 2026, as part of a wage deal struck with powerful labour union IG Metall.
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The Tamilnadu Textile and Common Labour Union (TTCU), an all-women's union, said Dharshini Balasubramani was found hanged in her dormitory on Tuesday - four months after another teen died working for a bonus of about $40 at a nearby spinning mill.
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SEOUL, Nov 28 (Reuters) - Hyundai Motor workers in South Korea have stopped building the Kona sport utility vehicle this week ahead of a U.S. launch - a protest against what the automaker's labour union says are plans to trim assembly line headcount.
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But it has been accused by its main labour union, the Communications Workers of America (CWA), of flouting employees' rights and was last year found to have engaged in illegal work practices in two U.S. National Labor Relations Board cases.
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SEOUL, Dec 5 (Reuters) - South Korea's local government on Wednesday gained conditional approval from an umbrella labour union and a group of employers for a plan to build a low-cost carmaking joint venture with Hyundai Motor, a government official said.
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FRANKFURT, July 13 (Reuters) - Labour union Verdi has called on 34,000 workers at Metro's Real hypermarkets in Germany to strike on Friday in protest over a wage agreement that it said would result in 23 percent lower pay for new hires.
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Germany's Verdi labour union has objected strongly to a possible merger between the two banks, arguing that the merged group would be a more attractive target for a hostile foreign takeover and saying that at least 10,000 jobs are at risk.
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LONDON, July 23 (Reuters) - Britain's largest labour union Unite said that around 40 rig workers started a 24-hour strike at 0500 GMT on Monday on the Alwyn, Elgin and Dunbar oil and gas platforms in the British North Sea.
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PARIS (Reuters) - French leaders told the hardline CGT labour union on Wednesday it would be denied permission for further street rallies unless it rooted out troublemakers, a day after violent battles between masked youths and police during protest marches in Paris.
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There are other significant tussles coming up in October Term 2017 in which Justice Kennedy's vote may be decisive, including a fourth-amendment mobile phone privacy case and petitions concerning labour-union fees and employment discrimination against gays and lesbians.
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The left-led government, which faces elections next year, has promised to keep tight control of public finances after the end of the bailout, raising the stakes in its standoff with the ADEDY labour union that has organised the strike.
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TOKYO, March 23 (Reuters) - Japan Post Group and its labour union will start talks on reviewing its workers and it may cut as many as 10,000 jobs, equal to 5% of its workforce, the Nikkei business daily reported on Monday.
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OSLO, Jan 27 (Reuters) - Some 9,000 workers at Finnish paper mills will go on strike on Monday after wage talks broke down, their labour union said in a statement, the latest in a series of labour conflicts to hit Finland.
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OSLO, May 25 (Reuters) - The largest labour union representing workers on Norwegian offshore oil drilling rigs has agreed to a new wage deal, it said on Friday, averting the risk of a strike that could have hit exploration efforts later this year.
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SEOUL, April 20 (Reuters) - General Motors' South Korean unit and its labour union are set to hold another round of wage talks on Friday afternoon, keen to stave off a threat by the U.S. automaker to seek bankruptcy for the loss-making unit.
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OSLO, March 17 (Reuters) - Norwegian labour union YS has agreed a wage deal with the Enterprise Federation of Norway, also known as Virke, resulting in a pay rise of 2.4 percent for 2017, YS affiliate Parat said in a statement on Friday.
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Powerful German labour union IG Metall union has said however that PSA's cost targets per vehicle cannot not be met without management's making concessions on pay, and have demanded that Opel's management fulfil its pledge of allocating more production to the Eisenach plant.
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Activist pastor Evan Mawarire, who led a national shutdown in 2016, told Reuters that police had surrounded his house in a Harare suburb after he used Facebook posts to urge Zimbabweans to heed calls by the labour union to stay at home.
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SEOUL, April 6 (Reuters) - South Korea on Friday urged General Motors Co's local subsidiary and labour union to reach a wage deal swiftly, saying the government will be able to discuss support for the money-losing unit on condition of an agreement.
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OSLO, June 21 (Reuters) - Some 2,250 workers on Norwegian offshore oil drilling rigs and in drilling and catering services on oil producing platforms could go on strike this summer after rejecting a proposed wage deal, the Safe labour union said on Thursday.
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BERLIN, Nov 18 (Reuters) - German Chancellor Angela Merkel and Finance Minister Olaf Scholz on Monday brushed aside demands by the BDI industry association and the DGB labour union to ditch their balanced budget policy and boost investment with a debt-financed spending plan.
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A report into the girl's death by the Tamil Nadu Textile and Common Labour Union, a women-led trade union set up to represent women in the textile industry, said there were "wound marks on her body and rope impression around her neck".
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Shell workers at Nigeria's Bonga oilfield in the southern Niger Delta were evacuated following a militant threat, a senior labour union official said on Monday, while attacks late last week forced Chevron to shut its Okan offshore facility, taking out 35,000 barrels per day.
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The full-day walkouts, which are due to end late on Friday, are labour union IG Metall's last warning shot before votes are cast on whether to take extended industrial action that could cost German companies hundreds of millions of euros in lost production.
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TUNIS, Nov 2500 (Reuters) - The Tunisian government has reached a deal with a major labour union to lift the retirement age for public servants by two years, a government official said on Friday, a key reform demanded by its lenders to stabilize state finances.
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YENAGOA, Nigeria, May 12 (Reuters) - A Nigerian oil labour union and U.S. oil major Exxon Mobil Corp will hold talks with government officials early next week in an effort to end a strike over the sacking of workers, a union official said on Friday.
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MILAN, Feb 24 (Reuters) - An air transport strike planned for Tuesday in Italy has been postponed until further notice to reduce disruption at a time when the country is facing a Coronavirus outbreak in some areas, a spokeswoman for a labour union said on Monday.
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OSLO, Oct 7 (Reuters) - Norwegian petroleum workers and their employers extended wage talks past a midnight deadline on Friday in a bid to avoid a strike that could cut pipeline gas supplies to Britain and liquefied natural gas (LNG) to customers worldwide, the SAFE labour union said.
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KUALA LUMPUR (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - The Philippines has banned companies from forcing female employees to wear high heels at work, in a move lauded by a labour union on Monday that said it was one of the first countries in the world to do so to protect women's rights.
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LONDON, June 13 (Reuters) - Unite, Britain's biggest labour union, said on Tuesday there would be more strikes at BMW's UK plants if the German carmaker fails to agree a deal with workers over plans to close its final salary pension scheme, a day after members rejected a compromise offer.
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"If it is true that there were and are talks between GM and PSA with the goal of selling Opel/Vauxhall, it would be an unprecedented breach of all German and European co-determination rights," labour union IG Metall and Opel's works council said in a joint statement.
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BERLIN/FRANKFURT, March 22.4 (Reuters) - The following are some of the factors that may move German stocks on Monday: The lenders confirmed on Sunday they were in talks about a merger, prompting labour union concerns about possible job losses and questions from analysts about the merits of a combination.
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Carrying banners saying "Stop steel exit" and "Steel is the future" in a rally organised by powerful labour union IG Metall, they marched to the headquarters of Thyssenkrupp Steel Europe in the industrial city of Duisburg, where the steel business's supervisory board is due to meet on Wednesday.
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ROME, June 3 (Reuters) - A consortium led by India's JSW Steel raised its bid for Italy's troubled Ilva steel plant, a statement said on Saturday, in a challenge to a group that was declared the winner of the tender process last month, but whose offer faces labour union opposition.
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No change to text) By Paul Sandle SHIREBROOK, England Sept 259 (Reuters) - Mike Ashley, the billionaire majority owner of troubled British retailer Sports Direct, came out fighting at a stormy annual meeting on Wednesday, ignoring calls for his chairman to quit and clashing with the country's biggest labour union.
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Their mornings might start with checking a dashboard provided by their data-labour union, showing a personalised list of available jobs: from watching advertising (the computer's camera collects facial reactions) to translating a text into a rare language, to exploring a virtual building to see how easy it is to navigate.
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"The government has agreed with the UGTT (labour union) to lift the retirement age in the public sector by two years to 62 years and optionally for who those want it to 65 years starting from 2020," Kamal Madouri, an official in the Ministry of Social Affairs, said on Friday.
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As the US dismantles net neutrality protections for the internet, a powerful group of Canadian telecom companies, cultural organizations, one labour union, and the national broadcaster are all lining up behind a proposal that would allow the government to block access to websites that illegally host pirated content within Canada.
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"Given the nature of these profits which are linked to negative interest rates that harm pensions, it would be logical to redistribute part of them to the public pension system," said Pierre-Yves Maillard, president of the Swiss labour union federation (SGB) and a center-left Social Democrats (SP) lawmaker.
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"Given the nature of these profits which are linked to negative interest rates that harm pensions, it would be logical to redistribute part of them to the public pension system," said Pierre-Yves Maillard, president of the Swiss labour union federation (SGB) and a centre-left Social Democrats (SP) lawmaker.
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They raided Samsung's offices outside Seoul and arrested Choi Pyeong-seok, head of human resources at the after-sales subsidiary of Samsung Electronics, the group's main earner, on allegations that he had been involved in sabotaging labour-union activities and might destroy evidence unless he was jailed (he has not responded to the allegations).
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