The union link, and his political prospects, go hand-in-hand.
ECONOMIST: Labour and the unions need each other more than ever
He also taunted Labour over the power of the Unite union over its finances and the link with Ms Harman's husband, Jack Dromey, who is the union's deputy general secretary.
Mr Van Rompuy's proposed banking union could sever the dangerous link between governments and banks.
The union partisan authors then try to link the labor movement to Martin Luther King, Jr. and the civil rights struggle of the 1960s.
Another is that the link with the teachers' union has been severed, and idealistic, energetic young teachers have replaced indifferent ones.
At a climate change conference in Brussels on Tuesday, the Deputy Prime Minister, John Prescott, told European Union ministers there was a "causal link" between greenhouse gas emissions, global warming and the serious flooding affecting much of Britain.
National Union of Students President Ciarnan Helferty said the link-up with the SDLP was based purely on the party's stand on tuition fees.
Union Bank, which declines to comment on its link with Ribadeo, is bracing for another whack for other activities.
Union Carbide, a chemicals firm, has a link to information on the deadly Bhopal gas leak in India on its home page, for example.
Unite union said members were unhappy at plans to cut a link between basic pay and overtime and other enhanced rates.
Fred Wilson of Union Square Ventures is a well-known example ( link).
In January 1994 the then Transport Secretary, John MacGregor, told MPs that Union Railways - the company set up to construct the Channel Tunnel link - had concluded that "St Pancras is preferable to King's Cross as the terminus on environmental, operational and commercial grounds".
John Prideaux was the first head of Union Railways, set up by British Rail to push through the Channel Tunnel rail link.
That link, he says, would reassure the Transdniestrian population that no future Moldovan government would seek union with Romania.
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