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Once the agreement was reached, all guards had the option of signing an authorization card stating that they wanted to be part of the union and wanted to bargain for wages through the union, according to Lauren Jacobs, the director of organizing at SEIU Local 615. Jacobs said that well over 50 percent of the guards signed the cards...
Introducing Colono’s history of violence in a new trial may improve Pring-Wilson’s chances, Abramson said. If the SJC upholds Quinlan’s ruling, it may even result in a plea bargain rather than a new trial, he added...
...Even with Johnson healthy, Reid will have to find a way to accommodate Republicans' strong opposition to tinkering with the Medicare benefit they passed in 2003 and to forcing the Administration to bargain with drug companies. To pass a hike in the minimum wage, Reid will likely have to give G.O.P. senators small-business tax breaks in return. "Reid understands that the only way he can get legislation passed is to work on a bipartisan basis with the Republicans," says his spokesman, Jim Manley...
...following the nuclear test in the autumn of 2006, the upper hand in the Bush Administration appears to be held by the pragmatists who believe that there is still a grand bargain to be struck with Pyongyang. They believe, despite the fact that the two sides have staked out such sharply different positions on the terms under which North Korea would dismantle its weapons, that the North seeks a deal. "The economic benefits for them are just too much to pass up; a deal is there to be had," says one Western diplomat. Kim Jong-il is the only...
...severely disrupted by U.S. Treasury Department measures against banks used by the country in Asia. The financial pain those sanctions cause the regime might give the U.S. a measure of leverage, but only to the extent that they can be used as a chip in pursuit of a grand bargain. For the U.S., progress in the talks requires North Korea's moving quickly to implement some practical steps signaling its readiness to give up nuclear weapons - such as suspending its nuclear fuel production at Yongbon and placing its activities once more under international monitoring. But to do that, North Korea...