He was a leader of Brazil's Landless Workers' Movement until he set up a parallel organisation in 2007.
Up north in Salinas, where Cesar Chavez led the Farm Workers' Movement 30 years ago, a rally emptied the fields and transformed the city.
"The "break-even" rule also infringes other EU fundamental freedoms: free movement of capital (as far as club owners are concerned), free movement of workers (players) and free movement of services (player agents), " said the statement issued by Striani and Dupont.
Europe's economies must create more jobs whether or not Turkish workers get free movement of labour (which they probably won't).
But limiting the movement of workers is a far poorer solution than expanding training programmes.
Employment issues are currently dealt with by four EU agencies that ensure the free movement of workers across the Union.
One of the great benefits of the easier movement of workers is that they help to keep labour markets flexible.
And greater labor mobility is likely to run up against existing government regulations as well as cultural and language barriers that discourage the movement of workers across borders.
So, Ofeibea, the group that's holding the oil workers is called the Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger Delta, and it's fairly new in Nigeria, but well organized, I gather.
But the European Commission believes a quota on foreign players would be incompatible with EU law as it amounts to discrimination at work and a restriction on the free movement of workers.
Will Europe's unions fight to preserve their privileges in inflexible national labour markets a strategy that benefits union members at the expense of non-members or will they throw their lot in with governments and employers to ease the movement of workers to where jobs are, through training and so forth?
Leaders of the organized-labor movement already view service workers with nonexportable jobs as the last best hope of labor unions whose membership is at an all-time low.
Mr. CHAISON: There's a very well organized and militant movement within the United Auto Workers, and particularly the Delphi locals, to not accept any more concessions no matter what the cost will be.
The World Trade Organisation should work towards the free movement of goods, capital and workers.
One clue was the reengineering movement, which substituted technology for workers.
Kidnappings of expatriate oil workers in the Niger Delta region by the Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger Delta (MEND) earlier this year have also increased concerns surrounding the security of the county's energy infrastructure.
But residents of the company town and Hershey's workers opposed the sale and got politicians behind their movement.
Solidarity with workers everywhere is the bedrock tenet of the labor movement.
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The question in China is not whether there is a youth movement, but what to do about the older workers, who increasingly find themselves without a place in the new economy.
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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It is a symbol among the grassroots of the ruling Workers and Peronist Parties in Brazil and Argentina respectively, and the Movement of Popular Participation (MPP), one of the largest sectors in Uruguay's ruling party, the Broad Front.
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His long support for the labor movement may help make some of the harsh decisions more palatable to workers.
More dangerous is discontent in the president's own Workers' Party and its biggest ally, the Party of the Brazilian Democratic Movement, to which Mr Temer belongs.
Britain's union leaders, for example, condemned the recent wildcat strikes against immigrant workers, and Mr Monks is fond of pointing out that workers throughout Europe benefit hugely from the European Union's policy of free movement of labour.
In the new economy, workers would wear whatever clothing best got their creative juices flowing, without unduly restricting freedom of movement while playing table football and engaging in other activities de rigueur in the modern cutting-edge working environment.
Further, the decline of the private sector union movement and the end of the defined benefit retirement plans that were once provided to workers as a part of their employment package have only served to make the problem worse.
If the labour movement is to prosper, it must adopt different strategies and find ways to be relevant to workers in new sorts of jobs.
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