But Tony Woodley, joint general secretary of the biggest union, Unite, is bullish.
The biggest union, Unite, wants to keep production, design and as much of the supply chain as possible in Britain.
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The NAHT is the biggest union for head teachers, representing 85% of primary heads and 40% of secondary heads in England, Wales and Northern Ireland.
But his counterpart at the second biggest union, the NASUWT, Eamonn O'Kane, was more relaxed about the figures.
In short, Mr Hoffa, who now runs the second-biggest union in the land after the National Education Association (the teachers' union), is not without prospects.
But the biggest teaching union, the Educational Institute of Scotland (EIS), condemned the report's findings.
The leader of the biggest teachers' union the NUT, Doug McAvoy, said there needed to be "a thorough review".
German banks, which are the biggest European Union lenders, will suffer the most through the defaults and bailouts, causing a depression in Germany like few have seen in their history.
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The attack was made by Nigel de Gruchy, general secretary of the second biggest teachers' union, the National Association of Schoolmasters Union of Women Teachers.
Friday, airline trade groups and the country's biggest pilots union sued the FAA to try to stop the furloughs.
Airline trade groups and the country's biggest pilots union sued the FAA on Friday to try to stop the furloughs.
But Rodney Bickerstaffe, the former head of the UK's biggest union, Unison, was encouraged by the move.
This would be the biggest pro-union shift in the balance of labor-management power since the Wagner Act of 1935.
Carter won after the Watergate scandal with the help of new forces in U.S. politics such as the biggest national teachers union.
Members of the biggest teachers' union have been accused by another union leader of helping to sully the public image of the profession.
On Tuesday, Len McCluskey, leader of Unite - the UK's biggest union and Labour's largest donor - told the Guardian newspaper the shift on pay policy would lead to the party's "destruction".
Most New Yorkers agree that mayoral control should continue, even Randi Weingarten, president of the American Federation of Teachers, the second biggest teacher's union in the country.
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The expansion of Europe over the last 10 years has seen the Brussels-based political union embark on the biggest recruitment drive in its history.
The European Union's biggest problem is slow growth, and the Barroso commission wants to do something about it.
The union, Britain's second biggest, has said it will ask the giant German trade union, IG Metall, to raise the issue of UK workers' pensions with Deutsche Telekom's supervisory board.
The biggest post-war union demonstrations took place in the early 1990s in protest against them.
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But the biggest of the European Union's newish members now has something to celebrate.
Agri SA, the white farmers' biggest union, says 600-800 of its members are already operating in other African countries.
At any rate, the sheikh can console himself with the knowledge that the metro will be the world's biggest computer-operated train system, and its Union Station will have the world's biggest underground railway concourse.
But behind it sits a big debate not only about the direction of the European Union, the world's biggest economic unit, but also about what sort of economy works best in the modern world.
According to the newspaper's editor, David Yelland, monetary union is the single biggest issue facing Britain and, with the encouragement of the newspaper's proprietor Rupert Murdoch, he has repeated its determination to oppose the move at every step.
Lowering the voting age for all elections is a long-standing SNP policy, and the party says it has been backed by organisations including Scotland's biggest teaching union, the EIS, as well as the Scottish TUC, National Union of Students and the Electoral Reform Society.
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