For decades the labour unions have provided both shoe leather and organisational glue for the Democrats.
Paul Krugman credits the Reagan-era assault on labour unions and regulations with a decline in workers' bargaining power.
It tries to weaken labour unions, both public and private, by encouraging legislators to pass bills that discourage them.
It is bankrolled by some of the main labour unions, and its head office is in a union building.
Government, employers' organisations and labour unions consult each other about economic goals and on the policy instruments to be used.
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So civil society can be community groups, NGOs, labour unions, indigenous groups, charitable organisations, faith-based organisations, professional associations and foundations.
Labour unions were reluctant to spend millions of dollars on an issue that would not benefit their already well-paid workers.
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Labour unions fear a downward drive in wages, while some of the more right-wing Republicans argue only for tougher border security.
Unfortunately, because of political pressure from labour unions and other groups, the Cadillac tax has been diluted, and delayed until 2018.
There is a group to whom manufacturing is essential: those who run labour unions composed of those fast disappearing manufacturing workers.
This would be the first such exercise at a large company in China, where labour unions have traditionally been controlled by management and local government.
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Religion, in all its forms, is but another form of vested special interest, like labour unions or business associations, and should be treated as such.
He worked actively for the CIA for 15 years, destabilising European labour unions by using anything Corsican mobsters, plagues of cockroaches and setting up his front companies.
But the labour unions say management has played up the crisis because it does not want to pay higher wages to the industry's half a million labourers.
Strikingly, apart from Mr Monks and the University of California, Mr Lerach's new institutional-investor friends tend to be backed either by labour unions or by the public sector.
And it may help the Working Families Party, a progressive political party largely made up of labour unions, which already has more grassroots support than the fragmented Democrats.
Mrs Clinton's every instinct is to push hard for the dictatorial agendas of the main interest groups backing the Democratic Party, particularly the labour unions and the greens.
South Korea's aggressive labour unions may prove a tougher test.
The SEC decision was prompted by a vigorous campaign mounted by U.S. human-rights, religious-freedom and national-security groups, labour unions and environmentalists opposed to foreign firms doing business in war-ravaged Sudan.
But the drop also can be attributed to opposition from a vocal coalition that unites religious freedom groups and labour unions with left-leaning environmental groups and conservative national security bodies.
American labour unions and international human-rights groups make much of the fact that trade unionists are murdered in Colombia, and that few of the assassins are investigated and brought to trial.
Labour unions help industrial peace by discouraging wildcat strikes.
Independent labour unions do not exist.
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The Conservatives (who have their own funding troubles) make much of the fact that four of the five biggest donors to Labour are unions, hinting darkly about buying influence.
The trade unions had 12m members and provided both secure funding and hundreds of jobs for Labour activists, while the nexus between public-sector unions and Labour-controlled local authorities, although malign in its effects, formed a morale-enhancing political bulwark against rampant Thatcherism.
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Labour politicians and unions said it echoed 1980s Tory minister Lord Tebbit's "get on your bike" comments.
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But if Labour and the unions are working hand-in-glove, it is difficult to explain the timing of this latest round of walkouts.
Not in most European countries: strong labour laws and strongish unions make that awkward.
Labour MPs and trade unions say zero hours contracts strip workers of their rights and are exploitative.
As a result of these jobs cuts and concessions won from unions, labour productivity has risen by one-third.
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