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<title>Syria: Assad Refusal of Peace Plan Will Deepen Conflict</title>
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<description>LabourStart headline - Source: ITUC</description>
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<pubDate>Sat, 04 Feb 2012 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>USA: The Privatization of Public Services, State by State</title>
<link>http://blog.aflcio.org/2012/02/01/the-privatization-of-public-services-state-by-state/</link>
<description>LabourStart headline - Source: AFL-CIO</description>
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<pubDate>Fri, 03 Feb 2012 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>Cambodia: Workers hold 'people's tribunal' to look at factory conditions</title>
<link>http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2012/feb/02/cambodian-workers-peoples-tribunal-factory?newsfeed=true</link>
<description>LabourStart headline - Source: The Guardian</description>
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<pubDate>Fri, 03 Feb 2012 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>Netherlands: Dutch cleaners on strike</title>
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<description>LabourStart headline - Source: UNI Global Union</description>
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<pubDate>Thu, 02 Feb 2012 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>Tunisia: National strike over media freedoms</title>
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<description>LabourStart headline - Source: Tunesia Live</description>
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<pubDate>Thu, 02 Feb 2012 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>Philippines: “More Unionists were Killed”: Alliance of Progressive Labor testifies</title>
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<description>LabourStart headline - Source: APL</description>
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<pubDate>Thu, 02 Feb 2012 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>Europe: Trade Union Industrial Federation Takes Shape for Europe</title>
<link>http://www.icem.org/en/22-Western-Europe/4872-Trade-Union-Industrial-Federation-Takes-Shape-for-Europe</link>
<description>LabourStart headline - Source: ICEM</description>
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<pubDate>Thu, 02 Feb 2012 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>Bahrain: ITUC Denounces the Ongoing Failure to Reinstate Workers</title>
<link>http://www.ituc-csi.org/bahrain-ituc-denounces-the-ongoing,10546.html</link>
<description>LabourStart headline - Source: ITUC</description>
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<pubDate>Wed, 01 Feb 2012 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>Brazil: Vale elected as the most evil company 2012</title>
<link>http://www.imfmetal.org/index.cfm?c=28683&amp;l=2</link>
<description>LabourStart headline - Source: International Metalworkers Federation</description>
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<pubDate>Wed, 01 Feb 2012 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>Kazakhstan: State of emergency lifted by regime  in Kazakh strike town</title>
<link>http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-16805739</link>
<description>LabourStart headline - Source: BBC</description>
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<pubDate>Wed, 01 Feb 2012 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>Egypt: New labour movement comes of age</title>
<link>http://strongerunions.org/2012/01/30/egypt%E2%80%99s-new-labour-movement-comes-of-age/?utm_source=dlvr.it&amp;utm_medium=twitter</link>
<description>LabourStart headline - Source: Stronger Unions</description>
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<pubDate>Tue, 31 Jan 2012 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>China: Apple - make the iPhone 5 ethically.Sign the petition</title>
<link>http://sumofus.org/campaigns/ethical-iphone/?sub=taf</link>
<description>LabourStart headline - Source: Sum of Us</description>
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<pubDate>Tue, 31 Jan 2012 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>Belgium: Workers hold general strike to protest austerity measures on day of EU summit</title>
<link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/europe/belgian-workers-hold-general-strike-to-protest-austerity-measures-on-day-of-eu-summit/2012/01/30/gIQAC1bmbQ_story.html</link>
<description>LabourStart headline - Source: The Post</description>
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<pubDate>Mon, 30 Jan 2012 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>USA: Verizon: Stop Tax-Dodging, Stop Union-Busting</title>
<link>http://www.youtube.com/cwaunion</link>
<description>LabourStart headline - Source: CWA</description>
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<pubDate>Mon, 30 Jan 2012 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>China: USW Lauds U.S. Victory at W.T.O in Challenge to China’s Raw Materials Export Restraints</title>
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<description>LabourStart headline - Source: Steelworkers</description>
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<pubDate>Mon, 30 Jan 2012 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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