UNI-Africa Commerce sector carried out the assessment workshop of the Organising, Campaigning & Bargaining - Commercial Workers’ Unions project in Southern Africa, from the 22 to 23 February 2007. This project has expired...
A delegation comprising officials from UNI and UNI-Africa, the South African commerce union (SACCAWU), LO-TCO representative Monica Ohlson and Simiao Simbine of SASK Africa visited Swaziland...
Private equity funds hold investments in companies that are not listed on a public stock market. They usually control management and, on acquiring a company, often bring in a new team of managers...
“Contemporary trends in capital markets have profound implications for corporate social responsibility,” observes Allen L. White in a discussion paper* prepared for Business for Social
Responsi...
UNI’s affiliate in Turkey, BASISEN have informed UNI that 840 finance workers had their employment contracts terminated as part of an outsou...
“There is a big black box at the center of the global financial system and nobody knows what is inside”, was the description given by John Monks, General Secretary of the European Trade Union ...
The Transport and General Workers' Union has made public a submission to the UK’s Financial Services Authority (FSA). In it, the union reacts to the agency’s discussion paper on private equity ri...
Delta Capital, the private equity* arm of Dubai-based Delta Partners, has launched the US$75-million MENA Telecom Fund in Bahrain.
Thanks to a “very strong pipeline of investment opportunities...
Private equity firm 3i has sold off part of its NCP car parking business to Macquarie Bank, gaining an estimated profit of £ 240million.
This runs counter to claims by private equity groups that...
In the furore that has enveloped private equity these past weeks, one of the criticisms of their way of doing business is the absence of any regard to corporate social responsibility (CSR).
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