Mexico's trade unions stick to same old tune
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Mexico's Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI) will use primaries to select its presidential candidate. The PRI has strong links with labor unions, which have tended to back the PRI in exchange for political office. Labor unions have benefited from labor laws which limit unions to one per company, and though the law has changed following a judgement in 1999, labor union agreement will be needed for the practice to end. Corporatism appears to persist in Mexico, and there is continuity in the role of labor unions.
Publication Name: The Economist (UK)
Subject: Business, international
ISSN: 0013-0613
Year: 1999
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Bashing the unions: as Labour and the Tories out-tough each other with plans to further restrict trade-union "militancy", it is worth asking what has been achieved by the union reforms of the past 17 years
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Laws made since 1979 to reduce the power of trade unions in Great Britain have caused reductions in the number of members and militant measures used by unions. The laws also created a more flexible job market as jobs were less protected and less unemployment. Cooperative unions are favored.
Publication Name: The Economist (UK)
Subject: Business, international
ISSN: 0013-0613
Year: 1996
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Unions' unions
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Mergers have occurred between European labor unions. This trend and the unions' attitudes to business are examined in detail.
Publication Name: The Economist (UK)
Subject: Business, international
ISSN: 0013-0613
Year: 2000
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