Word: membership
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...capitalism, compared to the days of high surf in the 1940s and 1950s. Today, the American labor movement (if you can even call it that) is practically at a standstill. Unions have taken on bad names through corrupt leadership practices and their lack of accountability to members. Union membership dropped steadily over recent years and continues to do so today. Nevertheless, while unions currently can be as mean-and-nasty as the businesses they struggle to gain concessions from, they constitute the worker's sole voice in the face of management and set the foundation for democracy among working people...
...test of union strength, and the results could indicate the future credibility of unions as a viable bargaining tool for workers. Pittsburgh serves as a good model for the movement as a whole because the problems plaguing American labor in general also apply to the United Steelworkers union. Union membership has declined by one half in the last five years. Add this to the depressed American steel industry and you've got a pretty low-spirted bunch of steelworkers...
...Membership in the nine-member City Council is balanced between the CCA and the more conservative Independents, although City Councilors Alfred E. Vellucci and LaRosa claim they are aligned with neither faction...
...screwed up. It wasn't that they were all from the east coast. I'm from Westchester. It wasn't that they were all Irish. But how can anybody with brains put three jocks with a poor Korean kid whose high school athletic achievement went no further than a membership on its math team? And I was terrible even at that...
...should become an active body with power equal to that of the Ad Board and that its functions should reach beyond those indicated in the Resolution. For example, it should try all cases of harassment--peer, political, racial religious, and sexual--which involve any undergraduate or graduate student. The membership of the committee should change frequently--from case to case if possible--to ensure that each case has members new to its and new in outlook. Perhaps students should be randomly selected from pools suggested by the Undergraduate Council, Radcliffe Union of Students, and the House Committees...