11.   The ILO also requested information on detained members of an unrecognized union federation, Serikat Buruh Sejahtera.

12.   The two union federations are calling on Venetiaan to abandon his free-market reforms.

13.   The union federation wants mandatory centralized labor negotiations within industries, the right to strike without fear of dismissal and more freedom to organize in workplaces.

14.   The two union federations have led general strikes involving nearly five million workers in three of the past eight years.

15.   The union federation wants centralized negotiations within industries, the right to strike without fear of dismissal and more freedom to organize in workplaces.

16.   In Galicia, a spokesman for a regional union federation, Xavier Abio, has called on fishermen to mobilise and issue a strong signal to the negotiators.

17.   In its founding statement Saturday, the FDTU demanded revisions to the current labor laws, which ban more than one union federation.

18.   Cosatu general secretary said the union federation was fighting to replace the apartheid-era mentality with democracy in the workplace.

19.   The POESY union federation said it had called journalists to a public meeting in central Athens.

20.   The strike call was backed by Communist Party leader Gennady Zyuganov and a deputy from the liberal Yabloko faction, Nikolai Duryagin, who attended the union federation meeting.