UNI-Americas Gaming Sector Bulletin
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Nro 04 - OCTOBER 2008
PROGRESS MADE AT UNI-AMERICAS GAMING SECTOR’S FIRST ANNUAL MEETING
Bolivia-IN THREE MONTHS, A NEW REGULATION WILL COME IN...
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HBOS-Lloyds TSB: Union asks for guarantees over jobs
UNI Finance affiliate, Accord, asked the British government to impose tougher conditions on the HBOS-Lloyds TSB merger to protect staff from redundancies. There is speculation that between 14,000 and 40,000 jobs could be axed.
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Financial and economic crisis seriously affects US mail volumes
UNI's US affiliates report that with the American economy facing its biggest crisis since the start of the Great Depression in 1929, mail volumes are down dramatically in most areas of the countr...
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Defending jobs in Hewlett Packard-EDS merger
On 15th October 2008, trade union and EWC representatives from HP and EDS met in Brussels to discuss the 9,330 lay offs announced in the wake of the take-over of EDS by HP. (This meeting followed...
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CWU (Ireland) Makes Submission on Next Generation Broadband
The CWU recently made a submission to the Department of Communications on foot of their public consultation on Next Generation Broadband which can be viewed here:
http://www.cwu.ie/library/cwu_s...
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Unions call for a sustainable ICT industry in Europe
Unions call on the ICT industry and the European institutions to initiate a sustainable ICT industry in Europe
Yesterday the EMF and UNI-Europa in a joint conference called on the ICT industry...
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Defending jobs in Hewlett Packard-EDS merger
On 15th October 2008, trade union and EWC representatives from HP and EDS met in Brussels to discuss the 9,330 lay offs announced in the wake of the take-over of EDS by HP. (This meeting followed...
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Credit crunch delays Alcan's $10bn sell-off plan
Rio Tinto Alcan has admitted that it the credit crunch is making it unlikely to hit its target of $10bn of divestments by the end of the year, casting doubt on the timing of the sell-off of its packaging division.
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The Secret Weapon of Newspapers in the Digital Age? Paper!
Paper is an island of peace in the digital 'chaos' and an 'emerging strength' for media which demands much more examination, a leading American media critic told the annual Readership Conference of the World Association
of Newspapers in Amsterdam on Thursday (16 October).
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Portugal: Hunger strike by postal union ends with some progress
Leaders from UNI Post & Logistics Portuguese affiliate, SNTCT have finished their hunger strike which lasted 53 hours (from 10:00AM Nov. 7 until 15:00PM Nov. 9). SNTCT report the strike was...
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