Swiss unions stick to hard line on wages in EU treaty talks
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BERN (Reuters) - Switzerland's labour union federation insisted on Thursday that measures to protect Swiss wages from cross-border competition were a red line not to be crossed in Bern's stalled treaty talks with the European Union.The hard line from federation head Pierre-Yves Maillard reflects the Swiss government's struggle to forge domestic consensus on how or even whether to move ahead with the pact, which has run aground after nearly five years of negotiations."We will engage in this..