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  • SocGen Joins UniCredit in Warsaw as Equity Sales Surge

    Record stock sales and a growing economy are helping Poland solidify its position as central Europe’s busiest financial center, even as euro-area neighbors struggle to shake the sovereign-debt crisis.

  • Can Occupy Wall Street Replace the Labor Movement?

    When protesters settled in New York's Zuccotti Park in September, few anticipated how big a phenomenon the Occupy Wall Street movement would become. Soon, dozens of encampments were established around the world.

  • Union Support Grows for Anti-Austerity U.K. Strike

    The possibility of a general strike by U.K. workers grew as Unison, representing 1.3 million public- sector employees, said it might support plans by another union to protest Prime Minister David Cameron’s austerity measures.

  • Guest-Worker Visas Sticking Point on Immigration Rewrite

    With Senate Republicans and Democrats moving closer to an agreement to grant a chance at U.S. citizenship to 11 million undocumented immigrants, a long- simmering dispute between organized labor and the business lobby risks sapping the measure’s momentum.

  • Guest-Worker Visas Sticking Point on Immigration Rewrite

    With Senate Republicans and Democrats moving closer to an agreement to grant a chance at U.S. citizenship to 11 million undocumented immigrants, a long- simmering dispute between organized labor and the business lobby risks sapping the measure’s momentum.

  • Egypt Falls Out With Obama Dealing With Sputtering Growth

    Cairo University echoed with cheers in June 2009 when President Barack Obama addressed his audience with the Muslim greeting, assalamu aleikum, peace be upon you.

  • Stern Says Obama Ultimately May Ease Tax Rule (Transcript)

    Andy Stern, the former head of the fastest-growing U.S. labor union and a close ally of President Barack Obama, said in an interview with Bloomberg Television’s “Conversations with Judy Woodruff,” to be broadcast this weekend, that he expects Obama to reverse his opposition to the easing of tax rules so companies with overseas profits will be encouraged to return the cash to the U.S. Stern is the former president of the Service Employees International Union.

  • Polish Ex-President Walesa Won’t Apologize for Anti-Gay Remarks

    Lech Walesa, a former Polish president and Nobel Peace Prize laureate, said he won’t apologize for his comments that homosexuals in parliament should sit behind a wall.

  • Government Workers Lead Drop in U.S. Union Rate

    Labor unions lost ground among government workers in 2012 as Republican-led efforts curtailed collective bargaining rights in several U.S. cities and states, and total union membership fell to a record low.

  • Impotent Mursi Losing Grip on Egypt as Unrest Prompts Reversals

    Egyptian President Mohamed Mursi’s declaration of a state of emergency in three restive provinces had all the earmarks of an autocrat’s command, right down to the 9 p.m. curfew.

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