Word: membership
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With its new membership and leaders, the council can make a break with its history of paltry accomplishments. As the council enters its fifth year, there are no council members left with ties to the founding of the organization. Its days as an infant government are over, and it has no obligation to the adminstration...
Conroy is also effective when exploring the injuries of class. Small- town South Carolina is a hothouse of humiliations for a family like the Wingos. Lila's bids for membership in the Colleton League are repeatedly turned down; the boys are teased about their unfashionable clothes. All but Henry, jailed for smuggling dope on his boat, have their vindications. Lila divorces Henry and marries the town's richest citizen; Luke and Tom become high school football heroes, and Savannah writes The Shrimper's Daughter, becomes famous and moves north to live in Greenwich Village as a lesbian...
...push Harvard toward divestment from companies that do business in South Africa is the effort of local labor groups--specifically Local 26 of the Hotel and Restaurant Workers, which represents Harvard Dining Service workers. While the 450 University employees are only a small percentage of the local's total membership, the president of local 26, Domenic M. Bozzotto, has been particularly active in denouncing the University's investment policies and helping the activists at various events...
...were trying to organize. At a founding convention in Chicago, a new organization known as the National Air Traffic Controllers Association announced that it intends to win certification as a bargaining unit. The association declared that it had collected 4,200 signatures, or the 30% of its potential membership necessary to petition for certification, and would be filing the pertinent documents with federal labor-relations authorities within a month. The aspiring union, though, has openly declared that it will not use PATCO's methods to obtain any future bargaining demands. Said John Thornton, NATCA's national coordinator: "Our constitution pledges...
...membership of Local 26 includes severalthousand Boston-area hotel and restaurantemployees in addition to the nearly 450 Harvardfood service workers. Harvard workers said strongsupport for Bozzotto among union members who workelsewhere would prohibit a change of leadership...