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  • That can be done only by openly starting a govt - run system of healthcare recruting there the best medical professionals and associate trade-unions and offering it as competitor.

    Summer Of Our Discontent. Rant By The Red Beaver 2009

  • The EU's trade-unions confederation also denounced the part of the deal on working hours and said it would lobby the European Parliament -- which needs to approve the rules before they can take effect -- to change it.

    EU Ends Impasse on Workers' Rights, Hours 2008

  • Being fully aware of the difficult situation, due to the weakness of the organized trade-unions and the lack of political and social forces with a class and left-wing orientation, we still insist on the necessity of building resistance movements as the only perspective for a just

    Kosovo A just solution requires multinational co-existence ,LLP staement 2008

  • And as much as they love Bush and Israel they promote hate and the worst possible feelings towards blacks, trade-unions, Moslems and all the ‘damned liberals’.

    Human Coprophagia 3 ��. Russian Immigrants Love Bush! 2008

  • Too often weeks or even months are wasted by trade-unions in efforts to determine who should emerge as the so-called "winner".

    ANC Daily News Briefing 2003

  • Our ranks include members of all faiths and churches, of all trade-unions and civic organisations, and of all political sects which support our aims.

    COMMUNISM, AND THE ANC CANDIDATES LIST 1994

  • God knows, the only reproach the government could have addressed to the Communist Party and the trade-unions was that they lacked the power to prevent les évènements.

    A Special Supplement: Reflections on Violence Arendt, Hannah 1969

  • It is the masses that do this, and the masses are moved by their organizations, their trade-unions, their youth organizations and women's organizations, the Defense Committees, and the militamen.

    MEETING OF DIRECTORS AND CADRES OF THE SCHOOL 1962

  • The voluntary coordination of the Jewish workers with trade-unions organized on a purely objective basis [namely the division of labor] reveals that their organization was based on a practical purpose [rather than in accordance with religious belief].

    Conflict and The Web of Group-Affiliations Georg Simmel 1956

  • The voluntary coordination of the Jewish workers with trade-unions organized on a purely objective basis [namely the division of labor] reveals that their organization was based on a practical purpose [rather than in accordance with religious belief].

    Conflict and The Web of Group-Affiliations Georg Simmel 1956

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