Word: labors
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...Labor organizing efforts began in 2004 with the founding of the Starbucks Workers Union (SWU) in New York City. The group sought a living wage and consistent work hours for Starbucks employees. They also claimed that Starbucks facilities violated local health codes...
...Jefferson, for his part, has lined up a slew of endorsements of his own: labor groups, a phalanx of influential African-American ministers, and most prominently, New Orleans Mayor Ray Nagin. "It's across the board, and it's wide and deep, and it shows the support we continue to have, the great reservoir of goodwill we continue to enjoy in this district," Jefferson said at the red-bean-and-hot-dog-fueled opening of his New Orleans campaign headquarters this month. The election could hinge on the 40,000 displaced voters who drove in or voted absentee...
...there was a famine in the country. I felt empty because my knowledge in economics meant little to the people suffering. Villagers had to borrow from loan sharks on terrible conditions--some even becoming slave labor for the moneylenders. I made a list of 42 people most seriously in debt who, all together, owed no more than $27. I went around the village according to the list, giving each of them the money they owed with no conditions other than that they concentrate on their work and repay me when they could...
...within striking distance by Election Day - say, within four or five points in the polls. And the Democrats' allies say they have also learned a thing or two since 2004 about bringing their voters to the polls. Where an anti-gay-marriage initiative energized religious groups in 2004, labor says its forces are seeing the same effect from a measure this year that would raise the state minimum wage. Ohio AFL-CIO President William Burga says his organizers are targeting the 496,000 union "drop-off voters," who show up for presidential years but not in midterm elections. Meanwhile...
Dorr led a failed rebellion against Rhode Island's Governor, who refused to recognize a new state constitution that Dorr had drafted with other liberal reformers. Sentenced to life in solitary confinement and hard labor, Dorr was pardoned...