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AMSTERDAM, Netherlands (AP) - To attract new members, a Dutch union has launched an Internet-based version of itself with reduced benefits for a tiny fraction of its usual dues.
The labor union De Unie, which represents around 100,000 workers in the financial services, health care and hospitality industries, said membership in the Internet Union would cost just $12 per year, instead of the roughly $215 it and other Dutch unions typically charge.
De Unie will offer its Internet members free online advice and one telephone consultation per year along with representation in annual collective-bargaining talks. But online members won't get legal support in wrongful-dismissal cases.
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