Word: membership
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Immigrants seeking the legal right to live in the U.S. are often desperate and helpless, and for that reason immigration law is a booming specialty. Membership in the American Immigration Lawyers Association has tripled in the past decade, to 1,800, and there are thousands of other lawyers who do immigration work part time. Yet despite the efforts of the A.I.L.A. and others to upgrade the field, immigration law has a less than sterling reputation...
...litter along roadways. A step up are jobs as waitresses or in factories. Sweatshops are coming back, both in the old garment trade, still a prime source of entry jobs, and in the new, high-tech electronics industries. Within the International Ladies' Garment Workers' Union, which has a membership that is 85% female, male workers hold virtually all the better- paying jobs. But the power of organization is still a new idea to most immigrant women, and it is one that appeals to those who are especially vulnerable: heads of households. To Chinese women, for example, says Muzaffar Chishti...
...about neat organizations," says Helms. "These are people who are inclined to pick a title that suits them after they act." Indeed, the most famous such group, Islamic Jihad (Holy War), apparently exists solely as a disembodied and anonymous telephone identification. It has no known central leadership or defined membership; it is essentially a label or tag used by various Shi'ite terrorists to claim responsibility for many of the bombings, kidnapings and acts of random violence over the past two years...
Before the City Council can elect a new mayor from its membership, the seat that Russell held for 10 years must be filled. To do that, local election officials must recalculate results from the last municipal election held...
Wilhelm says the advent of clerical, service, and government employee unions is a result of a recent production shift from the manufacturing to the service sector. "The traditional backbone of union membership has shifted," he says. "There's substantially less jobs in manufacturing today than there was 25 years...