Word: membership
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Attack. The strategy of 1959 revolves around the question of whether the Senate, with two-thirds of its membership holding over from election to election, is a "continuing body." If not, then its rules cannot go over from Congress to Congress. Along that line of reasoning, the opponents of Rule XXII worked out the following steps...
Seeing nary an appeaser in sight, Jimmy Hoffa quickly backtracked, claimed that Feinstein's plan was a surprise to him. His boys would not try to stop police deliveries, intended to picket "for advertising purposes only." Furthermore, the Teamsters would welcome police membership, only "if they request...
...Police in 73 cities are unionized (American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees), e.g., New Haven, Conn.; St. Paul; Omaha; El Paso; Denver; Portland, Ore. The union's charter forbids police membership to strike...
...week, Leighton sent a letter to the members of Dudley, asking their reaction to the proposal. "The cooperative house offers an efficient, economical means--particularly to students who live at some distance from Cambridge--of enjoying the advantages of full residence at the College at considerably less expense than membership in the residential Houses involves," he pointed...
...last summer's contract negotiations to win an extra 8? an hour for them. All of these trends, says the A.F.L.-C.I.O.'s Economic Review, "are producing a virtual revolution in industrial life. These changes are bound to place unions in a less friendly environment." If their membership continues to drop in relation to the total work force, unions may well find that they can count on less public sympathy for strikes, less power at the polls, and more demands for laws to prevent fewer and fewer workers from throwing more and more out of work...