USW Participates in Conference to Plan Trade Union Strategies on Global Challenges

- Expand our collective knowledge and understanding of the changing
nature of corporate ownership structures, practices , and strategies
for the world's largest multinationals.

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formula has been critical to enabling woman to achieve more in the workplace,
by creating choice and greater flexibility," said Nancy M.

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Sirius Consulting Group to Organize Implications of US Regulations on European Companies Conference May 11 and 12 in Paris FR.

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PARIS----With new and more complex
US regulations and an increasing focus on European companies by US
regulators aiming to protect investors and to establish a stringent
business code of conduct, European companies have to face growing
legal and financial risks even if not listed on a US stock market.

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WASHINGTON , The Independent Women's Forum today
is disturbed by recent reports that the United Nations is embracing policies
that are clearly anti-woman and could ultimately lead to a ban of infant
formula throughout much of the world, setting women in the workplace back
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To benefit the preferential registration fee (EUR 1 650 instead of
EUR 1 850), please mention BUSW2005 on the registration form.

Includes protests, boycotts, strikes, class action suits, and other organized actions against Nestl.

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PITTSBURGH,

Who: The United Steelworkers (USW) will participate in an international
planning conference of scholars and trade unionists hosted by The School
of Industrial and Labor Relations of Cornell University .

What: The conference will bring together a wide range of organizers,
researchers , and comprehensive campaign specialists from the labor
movement, as well as scholars from around the globe who study
multinational companies and multinational campaigns to:

- Share and learn from recent union initiatives in strategic corporate
research and strategic global organizing and bargaining campaigns in
order to more effectively take on multinational companies through
global comprehensive campaigns.ilr.edu/globalunionsconference

Contact Adam Lee
412-562-2482

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"We all want infants to receive the best possible nutrition, but the UN
resolution could be counter-productive both to infants and their mothers,"
said Pfotenhauer.

About Independent Women's Forum
The Independent Women's Forum was established to combat the women-as-
victim, pro-big-government ideology of radical feminism.
This conference is intended for Chief Executive Officers, Chief
Financial Officers, General Counsels, Risk Managers and Audit
Department Officers of European groups and subsidiaries of US
companies.

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Special Tribute: Former USW President George Becker will receive a
special recognition on Friday evening for his contributions during the
1994-95 global campaign to win a labor agreement with the Bridgestone-
Firestone Company at five U.g.

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Web information: http://www.
For further information and for registration , please visit the
website www.

In order to sell more of its infant formula, Nestl hired women and dressed them up as nurses to give out free samples of Nestl formula just long enough for the mother 's breast milk to dry up.

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"We
all recognize the benefits of breast feeding, but not all women can breast
feed.

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Independent Women's Forum Says UN Attack on Infant Formula Is Anti-Woman

The resolution , sponsored by Fiji,
Kiribati, Marshall Islands, Federated States of Micronesia, Nepal and Palau,
claims that formula contains pathogens that can result in death.

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Where: The Crowne Plaza Hotel, Times Square, located at 1605 Broadway
and 49th Street in downtown Manhattan , New York City.

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17, square Edouard VII - F 75009 PARIS
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When: February 9-11, 2006. Women deserve the right to decide
how to care for their infants, and the UN certainly is not in the position to
impose baseless restrictions upon new mothers.

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This is an attack on adoptive mothers, mothers with physical conditions
that make breastfeeding hazardous, including women infected with HIV, and of
course women who are working to keep a roof over their family's heads.

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The conference
includes union organizers, researchers, and comprehensive campaign
specialists."
Last month, the World Health Organization -- the UN's Geneva-based health
agency -- decided to allow a vote on a resolution that would place black
warning labels on infant formula products.

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The UN will be voting on the resolution at the 58th World Health Assembly
meeting in Geneva on May 16, 2005.sirius-conference.

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The objectives of this 2-day conference are to:

Evaluate company and Directors + Officers' risks related to US
Securities Law, the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act and US
Antitrust Law

Examine methods of the Securities and Exchange Commission
(SEC)

Develop a communication strategy in accordance with the new
rules of transparency

Review strategies to limit risk exposure and to avoid a US
litigation (e.. to give you concrete and practical answers.

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: class action, SEC investigation)

All these important issues will be handled by experts in
Securities Litigation, Corporate Governance and Risk Management from
leading US law firms, coming straight from Washington, Boston, New
York .

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Pfotenhauer,
president of the Independent Women's Forum.

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- Lay the groundwork for building a sustainable global network of
unions and academics to continue to work together to effectively
engage multinational corporations worldwide. "We are alarmed by reports that
the UN and its agencies are actively working to remove bottle-feeding as a
viable option for women around the world.
"We intend to monitor developments over the next 2-3 weeks and to alert
women about this attack on their liberties," Nancy M.

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"Infant formula is an excellent form of nutrition for infants, and an
important alternative given the reality that many women simply cannot
breastfeed due to physical conditions or workplace obligations.

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Pfotenhauer said . We seek to restore,
strengthen, and extend that which promotes women's well being by advancing the
principles of self-reliance, political freedom, economic liberty, and personal
responsibility .