Word: laborer
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...understand why Raza or the Progressive Student Labor Movement (PSLM) might have challenged Kovacevich. United Farm Workers (UFW) purported to speak on behalf of Mexican migrant and immigrant grape workers and for improved labor conditions (never mind that most grape workers chose not to join the UFW). It is less clear what motivated groups like UNITE, Education 4 Action, Phillips Brooks House Association, the Bisexual, Gay, Lesbian, Transgender and Supporters' Alliance, and Ballet Folkorico de Aztlan. (Those last two seem especially peculiar, but hey, why exclude people from the party...
...union coffers. Insiders say Teamsters headquarters faces large-scale layoffs within the next week or two. Those layoffs and the as-yet-unpaid bills for the government's inept efforts to clean up the union are likely to further cripple the union, which was once the giant of labor...
...This vote is to determine whether a majority of these workers decide they want to organize," Hurley said. If they do, "we cannot interfere with it...by rules of labor relations we are required to allow it. We always follow...
...next step in the unionization process is a hearing by the National Labor Relations Board, a government organization which mediates relations between employees and management...
...Clinton joined congressional Democrats on the Hill today to unveil the proposal, which is expected to play well in an election year. Republicans and business leaders will argue that the increase would be bad for the economy, and that wages are already being driven upward by scarcity in the labor market. They may also be tempted to point out that the proposal comes from a man whose office is heavily staffed with unpaid interns...