SNCF, where he was initially put in charge of safety and labour relations.
As India's global economic footprint grows, a marked rise in trade-related controversies in areas like labour standards, product safety and intellectual property seems all but inevitable.
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That's partly because Britain's labour and product markets are more flexible than many of its neighbours': the labour market has a safety valve in the form of the 1m workers who arrived from central and eastern Europe over the past four years and are now beginning to go home.
These have been criticised by road safety campaigners, including Labour backbencher Gwyneth Dunwoody, who says it will reduce the incentive for drivers to stay within the limits in residential areas, leading to more road casualties.
Thirty years after Thatcherism began to work its cruel magic in Britain (see article), continental Europe still tends to favour a larger state, higher taxes, heavier regulation of product and labour markets and a more generous social safety-net than freer-market sorts like the Iron Lady would tolerate.
In his former role as Middlesbrough's cabinet member for community safety, Mr Coppinger, a Labour councillor, worked closely with Mr Chicken.
The Labour-run council's biggest directorate covers adult social care, public safety, housing, libraries and adult education.
But while Labour MP for Bassetlaw John Mann, who represents the area, called the safety record of level crossings a "scandal", he felt replacing them with bridges or tunnels was not practical.
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He told the High Court in Edinburgh that he always wore heavy duty gloves while working as a woodcutter and the safety equipment kept his hands "quite smooth" despite his manual outdoor labour.
In the euro's first decade, southern Mediterranean countries enjoyed the benefit of lower interest rates, but they failed to reform their labour and product markets to make their economies more competitive for a world in which they had lost the safety-valve of currency devaluation.
Labour's Pauline McNeill welcomed the plans, but said they should not come at the expense of public safety.
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