1.   --Ensure freedom of organization for workers, even in nations such as China where the government bans independent unions and jails their leaders.

2.   Fifteen states have laws banning such unions, and three others are considering such legislation, said Denny Lee, a spokesman for the American Civil Liberties Union.

3.   Since the national Episcopal Church has not explicitly banned these unions, Brown is within his rights as a priest to bless them.

4.   They criticized China for locking up political dissidents, banning unions and failing to adopt labor standards.

5.   They oppose imports from countries that ban unions, China included.

6.   The government, which has banned independent unions, recognizes only one state-sponsored union.

7.   The military government has banned three unions representing professors, students and university workers and seized their assets following a strike that has closed campuses for four months.

8.   He denied the legislation, which bans multiple unions for three years and makes it easier for management to fire workers, was retrogressive.

9.   He denied that the legislation, which bans multiple unions for three years and makes it easier for management to fire workers, was a backward step.

10.   Conservative lawmakers, fearful that same sex marriages will become the law of land, introduced a bill in Congress Wednesday that would ban homosexual unions under federal law.