The union has never been able to organize a plant operated solely by a foreign automaker, though it has organized joint ventures.
But the situation began improving five years ago as the Japanese and the Japanese-Brazilians learned to co-exist and organized joint events, like barbecues, said Kunikazu Ihara, 65, a local ward leader.
Leo W. Gerard, president of the steelworkers union, said he and several leaders of the A.F.L.-C.I.O. had organized joint events this week with the Sierra Club and the Alliance for Climate Protection.
The statement, made to The New York Times, was significant because the U.A.W. has never succeeded in organizing an assembly plant owned solely by a foreign manufacturer, but it has organized joint ventures.
In his talks with his Arab interlocutors, Musharraf laid out his goals: promoting sectarian harmony, organizing joint action against terrorist organizations and building partnerships with Europe and the U.S. The next step is to engage the major non-Arab Muslim states -- Indonesia, Malaysia and Turkey.
3. Training opportunities UNICEF Mali could explore the possibilities of organizing joint gender training initiatives with other UN organizations in the country, e.g., there are opportunities for UNICEF and WFP in Mali to find common gender related areas of interest (support to school canteens, nutrition programmes).
More pressing, however, were his meetings with Thomas Krens, director of the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, to go over plans for the two institutions to share their collections, organize joint exhibitions and develop a worldwide network of museums.
The Hermitage and the Guggenheim will also organize joint exhibitions and help each other develop a worldwide network of museums, with a Hermitage presence, for example, in the new Guggenheim addition to be built at Wall Street on the East River.
In 1969, Mr. Solomon was asked by Robert S. McNamara, then the president of the World Bank, to create the International Investment Corporation for Yugoslavia and to organize joint ventures between that country and Western enterprises.
The U.K. Border Agency has set up controls in French ports, the two countries have tried to organize joint deportation flights, and Britain was vocal in encouraging France to shut Sangatte, a Red Cross migrant shelter, in late 2002.
Mr. Carrión has made such political relationships less a part of his campaign, but that is because he is endorsed by the Bronx Democratic Party, which organizes joint campaign events and literature on behalf of all of its candidates.
