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...Hyperinflation, estimated at 1 million to 2 million percent per year, is running rampant in the economically devastated country. Zimbabwe's central bank cannot keep up with the demand for ever larger bills and the paper to print them...
Bowing to a request from the German government, a German company that has been supplying Zimbabwe's embattled regime with bank note paper has stopped its deliveries, further increasing pressure on President Robert Mugabe...
...Munich-based firm Giesecke & Devrient, which reportedly supplies about half the southern African country's skyrocketing needs for paper to print money, made the decision after its president received a phone call Tuesday from German Foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier...
...Both parties to the fusion have grown big through mergers at home. Steelworkers currently only make up a fifth of USW's 1.2 million members, who work in such disparate sectors as mining, oil, paper, health care and security. Unite is the result of the consolidation last year of two other big unions, and its 2 million members also toil in a wide range of industries including aerospace, steel, brewing and transportation...
...international workers. The power to negotiate individual bargaining contracts will remain with USW and Unite, mainly because of differing national and internal laws and regulations. But Gerard says there's a host of issues common to both unions that will keep the collective leadership busy. In sectors including steel, paper and oil, for example, both unions deal with some of the same companies. The merged union will be better able to ensure that a company can't reject defined benefits in one country that it's already agreed to in the other. Other issues more suited to a global union...