Now what percentage of Labour funds come from unions and the likes of Lords Paul, Sainsbury & Cohen?

The thriller acquires an added frisson from the fact that Harris was an early and enthusiastic backer of Blair and a donor to New Labour funds.

With Labour funds severely depleted, trade unions are contributing 90 per cent of Labour's finance, with several unions providing donations in excess of £1 million at a time.

From 1934 onwards the Dutch government also experimented with a Labour Fund (Dutch: Werkfonds) to provide subsidised workplaces for the unemployed, often on large scale public works (comparable with the New Deal in the United States).

For example, he promoted education and thrift among Indian workers, lobbied for the introduction of English language instruction in Tamil schools in Perak and for the transformation of the South Indian Immigration Labour Fund into an education fund for the children of plantation workers.

But never mind about corporate and public pension funds; foreign investing has posed an especially sharp conflict for the labor funds.

For years, Republicans have learned to tag any liberal Democrat getting labor funds with a "union label," to his detriment at the polls.

The International Brotherhood of Teamsters surpassed all other labor funds, raising $4.3 million in the two-year period.

(Note: Tamkeen is the country's semi-autonomous labor fund that supports skills development programs and private sector job creation for Bahrainis.

An investigation revealed that a group of alumni had created a "Labor Fund" for the purpose of promoting work for Iowa athletes in local businesses.

Now what percentage of Labour funds come from unions and the likes of Lords Paul, Sainsbury & Cohen?

The thriller acquires an added frisson from the fact that Harris was an early and enthusiastic backer of Blair and a donor to New Labour funds.

With Labour funds severely depleted, trade unions are contributing 90 per cent of Labour's finance, with several unions providing donations in excess of £1 million at a time.

Wal-Mart said that the labor fund had ties to the United Food and Commercial Workers union and that the suit was an effort by the union to pressure Wal-Mart.

Connecticut Department of Labor funds, which helped launch the program at Quinnipiac in Hamden, have run out, and he would also like money to help students who can't afford the $1,300 tuition the college is now charging.

In another labor-related matter, Selig told the owners that baseball's central office would distribute to the clubs $100 million of the $450 million sale price of the Washington Nationals but that the remainder would be held for a labor fund.

From 1934 onwards the Dutch government also experimented with a Labour Fund (Dutch: Werkfonds) to provide subsidised workplaces for the unemployed, often on large scale public works (comparable with the New Deal in the United States).

Documents obtained by several Mexican newspapers appear to show that Mr. Fernandez was paid for his legal services to Anahuac with a check for about $256,000 drawn on the account of a labor fund that Mr. Bastida controlled.

For example, he promoted education and thrift among Indian workers, lobbied for the introduction of English language instruction in Tamil schools in Perak and for the transformation of the South Indian Immigration Labour Fund into an education fund for the children of plantation workers.