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How last week's Financial Times saw the divisions in the TUC ply no-strike deals to teachers Peter Dawson, the general secretary of the association explicitly motivated the talks with the EETPU as a response no deal which had been signed with Shah.
The role of Mainstream is therefore clear. It links together not only the right unions but is also prepared to cooperate fully with purely organisa tions outside it. It con prepared to do deals with the Alliance and to question the TUC's links with 'Mainstream' gives the measure of just how far Hammond, Duffy and Co are prepared to Labour leader of the House of Lords Lord Peart, had been . originally set up through Joe God. son, ihe former labour attaché at the US embassy in London.
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