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Shanghai Automotive Industry reached a deal to acquire the core automobile assets of a Chinese rival, a union that could create a more powerful rival to big foreign carmakers in the fast-growing Chinese market.
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A "reasonable settlement" is reached in the annual European Union fisheries talks, says a UK minister.
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The number of dead fish thrown back into Europe's seas will be cut under plans agreed by the European Union to reward fishermen who avoid catching young cod
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USW says Point owners took too long to start serious talks in deal With the dust barely settled on E2 Acquisition Corp.'s $1.35 billion failed bid to buy the Sparrows Point steel mill, the United Steelworkers are pointing fingers at owner ArcelorMittal and E2's strategic partners for causing the deal's collapse.
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Unionized workers at the Ekati diamond mine in the Northwest Territories have ratified a four-year contract with the mine's majority owner, BHP Billiton, the union says.
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The European Union has accepted a US deal which will keep continental gambling and betting companies out of the lucrative American market.
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The compensation deal with the European Union over closure of the US internet gambling market is unlikely to reduce pressure for the US to relax its online gaming laws
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GENEVA - The United States will provide the European Union with new trade concessions in mail services and warehousing as part of a compensation deal over Washington's refusal to lift restrictions on Internet gambling, the European Union said Monday.
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Faced with indefinite suspension of negotiations, the union representing striking Hollywood writers said it would deal directly with Hollywood studios & production companies, bypassing the umbrella organization that has been representing them.
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Faced with the indefinite suspension of negotiations, the union representing striking Hollywood writers told its members Saturday it would try to deal directly with Hollywood studios and production companies, bypassing the umbrella organization that has been representing them.
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In what may be the first break in the entertainment writers' strike, David Letterman is pursuing a deal with the Writers Guild of America that would allow his late-night show on CBS to return to the air in early January with the usual complement of material from his writers, ev …
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Faced with the indefinite suspension of negotiations, the union representing striking Hollywood writers told its members Saturday it would try to deal directly with Hollywood studios and production companies, bypassing the umbrella organization that has been representing them.
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The union representing striking Hollywood writers said it would try to deal directly with Hollywood studios and production companies, bypassing the organization representing them.
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LOS ANGELES (AP) -- Faced with the indefinite suspension of negotiations, the union representing striking Hollywood writers told its members Saturday it would try to deal directly with Hollywood studios and production companies, bypassing the umbrella organization that has been representing them....
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Japan Tobacco International, producer of Camel and Winston, will pay the European Union $400m in a deal to tackle the trade in bogus and smuggled cigarettes, receiving legal immunity in return.
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A planned revamp of the European Union's trade defence arsenal has sparked a fierce battle over how to deal with the growing number of EU companies shifting production to lower-cost countries like China.
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France and the UK are set to strike a bargain at a European Union summit under which each country will secure EU approval for a policy objective close to its heart
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The bosses of Europe's biggest car and truckmakers are calling for a global deal on climate change as the European Union finalises pollution-cutting legislation that will have a profound impact on their businesses
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THE African Union called on its 53 member nations to resist pressure from the European Union to swiftly sign trade accords that would oblige them to open up their markets to a wider range of goods and services. "Speeding up these negotiations will bring no benefits," Alpha Oumar Konare, chairman of the African Union commission, said at the EU-Africa summit in Lisbon on Saturday, adding that a hasty deal might come at "a tremendous cost to rural African populations and to African industry.'' "We need to take the necessary time to conclude fair agreements, he said. "There are so many questions that need replies." Bloomberg News reported a series of preferential trade agreements between the 27-nation EU and 78 African, Caribbean and Pacific countries is due to expire at the end of the year. The EU is pressing for the adoption of new economic partnership agreements, which are often referred to as EPAs and cover trade in agricultural and industrial
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BHP Billiton has been accused of bribing miners to sign five-year Australian Workplace Agreements with a $10,000 drilling bonus, which is only available if they abandon their collective union wage deal.