Government is hardly the historical exploiter of workers that union leaders point to as the justification of their existence.
Union leaders point to low pay, spiralling housing costs and intense job insecurity as the corrosive cocktail which led their members to opt overwhelmingly for industrial action.
Mr. SHAIKEN: From the union's point of view, they know GM's in trouble.
Just so much was flooding out of the CIS (the ex-Soviet Union by this point) that that price had collapsed.
Supporters of the Union need only point up potential problems, identify pitfalls.
British forces raised the Union Jack over Possession Point in 1841 during the First Opium War, fought to protect the Queen's trade of the narcotic.
The Republicans point out that union leaders wield the power without accountability that Americans despise.
Yet the health care cost increases remained a sticking point for the union.
Such voices fear that he might intentionally wreck the social-union negotiations, and then point to the collapse of the talks as proof of the federal system's bankruptcy.
Agriculture subsidies by the U.S. and the European Union were a major sticking point in the Doha discussions for developing countries, who say their farmers cannot compete with subsidized goods.
"This is going to be a trigger point, " said Union Square managing partner Fred Wilson of the Coinbase investment.
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In the State of the Union, President Obama made a point to talk about two critically important trends when it comes to education.
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They point to the European Union's decision to impose compulsory testing on all shipments of long grain rice from the US, after commercial supplies were found to be contaminated with GM strains.
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One sticking point has been non-union tours, which are cheaper to produce but do not offer protection to performers.
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General secretary of the National Union of Teachers said there was no point "pontificating" about the benefits of music if it was not funded properly.
So it is with extreme reluctance that Charlemagne has concluded that, when it comes to the most divisive issue left in the draft European Union constitution, both sides have a point.
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The BBC's political correspondent Robin Brant said this was a strong message about what the PM saw as the limits of ever-closer union with Mr Cameron referring at one point to "we sceptics".
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And yes, you can point - as the Welsh union representing teachers and lecturers has done - to "pretty savvy" youngsters who these days more than ever weigh up the qualification versus the debt.
The MLBPA, the players' union, isn't commenting at this point, according to a spokesman.
But at a certain point, as in the Soviet Union or Indonesia, such stability can become the most destabilising thing of all.
Some point to the 350, 000 Union troops who died in the war that ended slavery, and ask what compensation their descendants are owed.
On the following page, the last president of the Soviet Union, Mikhail Gorbachev, makes a similar point and speaks of her "real human warmth".
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Sally Hunt, head of the UCU union, said there could soon come a point when her members would push for action at a national level.
Mr Putin's decision to pull out of the World Trade Organisation entry negotiations, saying that Russia is prepared to go in only as part of a customs union with Belarus and Kazakhstan, illustrates that point.
Not only do several presidential candidates with a chance of winning want to rebuild the Soviet Union, but the man most determined to point Ukraine westwards, Mr Kuchma, looks like resorting to highly undemocratic tactics to achieve the aim which the West, broadly, endorses.
It would be a disaster were President Bush to permit his courageous, clarion and much-needed characterization of the state of the emerging threats to our Union now to be whittled away to the point where it is seen as little more than a bit of regrettable rhetorical hyperbole.
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