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...Instead, the membership followed the trend of the party's voters, and then some: Royal's 60.62% share of the vote among the card-carriers bested her recent poll results among the party's voter base by more than five percentage points. Former finance minister Dominique Strauss-Kahn, whose lieutenants had been peddling the competence-not-populism line, received a humiliating 20.83%, just a nose ahead of former Prime Minister Laurent Fabius's 18.54%. "Now we know that the party membership doesn't deform the will of the party's broader electorate," said party official and National Assembly deputy Bruno...
...pressure on AlliedBarton to allow the guards to unionize.“It’s an issue between Allied and its employees,” he said, adding that the University has no position on the issue.Harvard once employed its security guards directly, and those guards enjoyed membership in the Harvard University Security, Parking, and Museum Guards Union. But the University gradually outsourced its guards because of financial losses, a process completed in 2004. To fill the void, Harvard subcontracted with Security Services Incorporated—now AlliedBarton—which did not permit its Harvard employees to unionize.Harvard...
...finding is important because previously, Mounir el-Motassadeq, 32, had been convicted only of membership in a terrorist organization, and released - that charge carries only a two-year sentence. El-Motassadeq will now likely be rearrested pending sentencing. Hamburg authorities have said they will deport him back to his native Morocco after he has served his time. He faces a maximum sentence of 15 years after being found guilty of being an accessory in the murders of the 246 who died in the planes, but not in the killing of the victims in the towers. That, say experts, means that...
...track passage. The move was resisted by lawmakers seeking to protect textile manufacturers in their home states, or seeking to punish Vietnam for its human rights record. For now, Vietnam finds itself in the unusual position of joining the world trading club but having none of the benefits of membership apply in the U.S. - its biggest export market. The U.S. recently imposed anti-dumping tariffs on Vietnamese shrimp and catfish, while Europe has done the same for leather footwear, hitting some of Vietnam's biggest exports. While WTO membership allows countries to challenge such barriers, Vietnam joined...
...Rick Howarth, Intel's country production manager. Says Scriven of Dragon Capital: "This is one of the most pro-change places I've been in. But there is time required. The headlines will come and the headlines will go, but the battle ahead is a long one." With WTO membership promising to even up the odds, Vietnam is ready to rumble...