The TUC, as the umbrella organisation for the trade union movement, is a broad church.
During the early 1980s Edelman was active with Solidarity, the Polish trade union movement that opposed the Communist government.
The country's powerful trade union movement whose support has traditionally been so important to the SDP has long resisted any change to Germany's generous welfare provisions.
Zimbabwe's trade union movement says it has reduced to just one day a general strike called to press the government to restore law and order.
The predictable backlash could actually help Jaruzelski discredit the independent trade union movement in Poland while at the same time reinvigorate the weakened communist party.
He is open to the accusation that this is too little too late for most of his term he shied away from necessary reform for fear of alienating Germany's powerful trade union movement.
This is because they involve two leaders, on the Greek and Turkish sides, who have known each other for years (through the trade union movement), and are both publicly committed to compromise and reaching a deal.
In the words of one of their leaders, Christine Blowers, general secretary of the NUT, to the LRC meeting, she said she hoped it would be "the time for the sleeping giant of the trade union movement to wake up".
The SPD is the political home of Germany's powerful trade-union movement.
The trade-union movement, until recently narrow-eyed about foreigners of any sort taking its members' jobs, has now become much more sympathetic to Latinos, who make up an increasing number of those members.
"Thatcher's economic policy cured the specific British disease of vulnerability to bouts of high inflation and a Luddite trade-union movement, " said Howard Davies, formerly a deputy governor of the Bank of England and a head of the London School of Economics.
So on the top floor of a trade union building in Rabat, the 20 February movement has been plotting their next move.
AFL-CIO union movement in the United States, which might push for trade sanctions if it considered that labour rights were being violated in Venezuela.
But Kamal Abbas, director of the Independent Center for Trade Union and Worker Services, says the government will move to block political gains by the labor movement just as it has blocked pro-democracy reformers.
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