Great Britain: investment funds representatives started talks with trade unions

Anxious to start dialogue with the booming private equity sector, trade unions and the association which defends the sector's interest finally sat around the same discussion table. (Ref. 070673)
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Invited by the trade union confederation TUC’s general secretary, Brendan Barber, representatives from trade unions and from the British Private Equity and Venture Capital Association (BVCA) met for the first time around a discussion table. Both parties declared that they were satisfied by this good start. “I salute the opportunity of a dialogue between unions and investment funds,” declared Brendan Barber. “Since investment funds employ 1/12th of the employees from the private sector, it had b

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