The TUC, as the umbrella organisation for the trade union movement, is a broad church.
He says the newly divided union movement will have to coordinate behind candidates they can agree on.
The issue will be another theme for a resurgent union movement eager to take on the government.
But Mr Prentice had a warning for those in the union movement who wanted to split with Labour.
Thatcher left office in 1990, the labor union movement had been substantially weakened.
It left the ailing AFL-CIO in 2004, and unlike many unions (and the union movement in general), it is growing.
The union movement, people having an opportunity to get a minimum wage -- people were beaten and died for that.
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The latest example is Michigan, which is the home of the modern industrial union movement and recently has become a right-to-work state.
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The union movement is going to be at the center of it.
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On each string-pulling issue he received varying amounts of applause - the greatest coming in recognition of Mr Monks' contribution to the union movement.
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.
Among her many accomplishments, part of her legacy will certainly be her role in the transformation of British labor markets and the labor union movement.
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.
And then there is the decline of the private sector union movement that, in 1970, saw membership peak at 17 million Americans holding union cards.
In the struggle to define a new model of capitalism, the biggest test for the union movement may be which side to take on globalisation.
The SPD is the political home of Germany's powerful trade-union movement.
Time has mellowed some of his animosity toward the union movement.
But market reforms haven't been kind to the historic shipyards of Gdansk, where the Solidarity Union movement began with union leader and future Polish president, Lech Walesa.
But he knows he and his colleagues may still have a fight on their hands and it is one that the union movement and Labour's future relationship with it depends on.
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.
Yet, so many non-union workers appear to be oblivious to how they benefit from the union movement and are actually rooting for the forces that would bring the union era to an end.
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Indeed, it was Mr de la Rua's secret meetings with Mr Menem and the discredited old guard of the Peronist union movement, promoted by Mr Nosiglia, that first strained relations with his vice-president.
The union movement has certainly been jolted by the turmoil sweeping through the platinum and gold mines around Johannesburg, which is being led by new, more militant unions or by the workers themselves.
This would not only do untold damage to the prospects of success for Obamacare, it could prove to be the final nail in the coffin for a union movement already hanging on by a thread.
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.
And he confirmed that he would be meeting with members of the union movement's new so-called awkward squad such as Amicus' Derek Simpson and the TGWU's Tony Woodley to see how they could "reclaim" the Labour Party.
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