Guy Ryder, general secretary of the International Trade Union Confederation, will become a CBE.

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"I was shocked to see this exploitation in football, " explained Sharan Burrow, General Secretary of the International Trade Union Confederation.

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"We think that it's a victory for the workers to have successfully secured a pay rise with quite a good percentage increase and that after our strike we got something and also the union is strengthened, " Confederation of Trade Unions organizing coordinator Chan Chiu-wai said on Monday.

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During a televised meeting on December 1st, Nobuaki Koga, the head of Rengo, Japan's largest trade union confederation, begged Mr Kan to take public opinion more seriously.

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Nevertheless, Mr Kim has at least persuaded the militant Korean Confederation of Trade Unions, the smaller of the country's two union groups, to abandon a national strike that was scheduled for June 10th and return for a second round of talks on job cuts with the government and employers.

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There has been strong criticism of the EU's strategy from the European Trade Union Confederation (ETUC), which organised pan-European demonstrations against high unemployment and austerity earlier this month.

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South Africa's trade union confederation, Cosatu, also expressed concern that Mr Tutu "has allowed his passionate personal hatred of the ANC and its President Jacob Zuma to cloud his judgement".

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