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...The labour provisions were crucial to securing the support of labour unions like the AFL-CIO, which have traditionally opposed US trade agreements....
...According to a Wall Street Journal-NBC News poll released on Thursday, Mrs Clinton has the support of just 53 per cent of US voters who plan to vote in Democratic primaries versus 42 per cent for Mr Sanders...
...And there are no business books on the list....
...Businesses throughout the “low-wage economy” would now feel extra pressure to raise pay, said Damon Silvers, the policy director for the AFL-CIO, America’s union umbrella organisation....
...at 1,376 Americas DJIA down -0.15% at 16,827 S&P 500 down -0.04% at 1,960 Bovespa up +0.02% at 53,168 Asia Nikkei 225 up +1.08% at 15,326 Topix up +1.07% at 1,276 Hang Seng down -0.13% at 23,191 Shanghai...
...The AFL-CIO labour union, urged Tribune in May not to sell to the Koch brothers, saying they had promoted “an ideological agenda” and could affect the newspapers’ reputation for independent journalism....
...The meeting will follow on the heels of one with progressive groups such as the NAACP and the National Council of la Raza, as well as the SEIU and AFL-CIO labour unions....
...The new European Union rules, which have been challenged by chancellor George Osborne, would hit tens of thousands of bankers, the vast majority of them based in London....
...No one can fully predict the effects of the centre on the region’s cultural scene and artists, or on the local tourist economy, but the authorities certainly have high hopes....
...And given the size of the uprating this year, we will no longer go ahead with the additional £110 rise in the child element, over and above inflation, that was planned....
...You understand the importance of this. The fact is, the Chamber of Commerce and the AFL-CIO don’t agree on a whole lot. Tom Donohue and Richard Trumka aren’t exactly Facebook friends....
...“We have the president on our side,” says Richard Trumka, secretary treasurer of the AFL-CIO union coalition....
...PepsiCo North America to bring up her three children....
..., AFL-CIO, as labour secretary....
...Russia, then the Soviet Union, was the principal market for cloth produced in the city’s mills through the second half of the 20th century but with the end of communism the mills fell silent and during the...
...He notes that the European Union uses two-thirds of the energy per capita and energy per dollar of gross domestic product of the US....
...These were years of great turmoil, with the rise of the anti-communist Solidarity trade union....
...The AFL-CIO said last week that the stock option backdating scandal “shares many similarities to the after-hours trading of mutual funds, where favoured insiders received preferential terms that were hidden...
...“America’s pension funds need to be careful, because private equity is a game for grown-ups,” warns Damon Silvers, associate general counsel at the AFL-CIO union federation....
..., local currencies....
...“There’s no altruistic relationship between China and Africa,” says Lyal White of the South African Institute of International Affairs....
...for North America....
...Germany's top rate has been brought down to 42 from 53 per cent in 1998, and its lowest rate to 15 from 26 per cent....
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