Word: anti-union
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When Blair became prime minister in 1997, he sought to remedy Britain’s rusty socialist state, incurring the wrath of the powerful labor unions. He resisted pressure from the Trades Union Congress—whose members constitute a significant chunk of the Labour party—for repeal of anti-union laws. Union workers demanded that Blair lift prohibitions on secondary picketing, whereby people picket venues unrelated to their protest, such as the private homes of a company’s management; but Blair did not bend...
After thousands of students, workers and faculty members protested in Harvard Yard (and more than 40 inside of Massachusetts Hall) in 2001, Harvard finally admitted that it does have the ability and moral duty to pay its workers fairly and to forgo anti-union tactics. At the time, Harvard placed a moratorium on outsourcing until it could guarantee that its subcontractors would not undercut the working conditions of its unionized employees...
...revised Union treaty, officially titled the Treaty of the Union of Sovereign Republics, he will find them as reluctant as ever. One provision of the treaty, however, is that those republics that refuse to sign will be governed by "existing legislation of the U.S.S.R., mutual obligations and agreements." So the breakaway states that thought they could opt out of the Union by not joining the new one will still be held hostage. Undeterred, Lithuanian President Vytautas Landsbergis says he will negotiate with Moscow only if the end result is Lithuanian independence. Rukh, the anti-Union movement in the western Ukraine...
...CCSR supported a proposal calling on Coca-Cola to investigate accusations of anti-union behavior in Colombia. The decision came on the heels of a of a similar vote last year in which it called on Coca-Cola to appoint an independent investigator...
...their own, trekking out to Burlington Friday night for a post-fast rally. Jamila R. Martin ’07, a member of the Student Labor Action Movement who fasted last week, said SEIU 615 has been trying to organize janitors in the city for a while, but the anti-union sentiment in the area has made it very difficult...