The authority said it would support a move by labour union Unite to challenge the government.
WASG, a labour union, with the predominantly eastern German Democratic Socialists, most of whom are ex-communists.
Hyundai's labour union again refused to work last weekend - the seventh straight weekend of industrial action.
The same objection applies to an alliance with the left-leaning Labour Union.
Some companies responded by forming in-house workers' groups, but the ACFTU objected, claiming that this amounted to the creation of an alternative labour union, and was thus illegal.
Foxconn, the contract manufacturer whose biggest customer is Apple, is preparing genuinely representative labour union elections in its factories in China for the first time, a powerful sign of the changes in the workshop of the world demanded by an increasingly restive workforce.
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Mr Clinton's economic team, led by Bob Rubin and Larry Summers at Treasury, is by and large supportive of trade liberalisation, whereas the labour-union base of the Democratic Party is hostile.
Abdulwaheed Omar, president of the Nigeria Labour Congress union, said he would urge his members to "stay off the streets... because of the security situation" but stressed the nationwide strike would continue.
Mr Prentis is the third leader of a major Labour-supporting union to speak out this week.
The bosses made secret attempts to train non-union labour well ahead of the dispute.
Labour was the union party and it was crucial to get in there and reclaim it, he said.
Labour and the union Unite have called for a full-scale Leveson-style inquiry into the matter, which they have described as a national scandal.
An economy is stimulated by spending, just as much by dollars from the wage-negotiated salaries of union labour as the investment accounts of bankers.
The dispute burst on to the streets and into the courts this week after Patrick, the company leading the charge, sacked its entire dockside workforce in favour of non-union labour.
But talks were abandoned in October 2007 as parties clashed over Labour's trade union funding and Conservative donor Lord Ashcroft's funding of Tory candidates in marginal seats.
On Tuesday, Len McCluskey, leader of Unite - the UK's biggest union and Labour's largest donor - told the Guardian newspaper the shift on pay policy would lead to the party's "destruction".
He said a fitting end to New Labour's revolution would be a formal union of Liberalism and Labourism, but that Labour would need the generosity to reach out to a smaller party from a position of great strength.
For its part, the Labour government has allowed the union to suffer through neglect.
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One of the largest barriers to labour mobility in the European Union is language.
Current plans, according to the minister of labour, envisage a single union with separate representatives for different industries.
Also, companies could try to renegotiate their labour contracts with the steel union.
The independent commission was set up after winning the backing of Scotland's pro-union parties, Labour, the Tories and the Liberal Democrats, in a Scottish Parliamentary vote.
But he knows he and his colleagues may still have a fight on their hands and it is one that the union movement and Labour's future relationship with it depends on.
Mr Rennie said he was hoping to reach agreement with Scotland's other pro-union parties - Labour and the Conservatives - on increased powers for Holyrood, in the event of a "no" vote in the referendum.
For example, when Gordon Brown, the shadow chancellor, could not immediately explain the details of Labour's plans for union recognition, voters were given a rare glimpse of Mr Brown, usually a master of policy, floundering.
But as David Autor, an economist at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, points out in a new paper on labour market polarisation, fading union power has been more the effect than the cause of occupational shifts.
Labour ones, trade-union leaders or university lecturers.
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Labour and Plaid members also refused to cross a PCS picket line in March 2010 when the union was in dispute with the then Labour UK government.
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