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Thu 08 Aug 2003Warning on end of social partnershipA warning that social partnership could be in its final stages and a return to "1970s-type engagement" on the cards was issued yesterday by the general secretary of SIPTU, Mr Joe O'Flynn.The union was ready to protect its members' interests in whatever environment it found itself, he told delegates at the national conference in Galway.