Word: memberships
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Whether or not the Coors company is anti-union, more than nineteen unions have come and gone over the last twenty-five years. There is presently a union of Operating Engineers but unlike most unions, membership is not obligatory. It has about 30 members; Coors has more than 9000 employees. Brewery Workers Local 366 had about 1500 members when it went on strike...
Labor activists suggest that such groups are inherently anti-union, because without automatic union membership, workers can avoid paying union dues and still receive the benefits of the union's bargaining power...
...patient's own wishes? Such agonizing dilemmas were at the heart of two days of discussions in Boston last week by 70 health administrators and scholars from 28 states and Canada. Their topic: the morality of removing feeding tubes. The meeting's sponsor was the Catholic Health Association, whose membership includes 615 hospitals that admit 6 million patients a year and 267 nursing homes that care for 74,000 aged patients...
According to Rosenstein, most union members were satisfied with the compromise. "The membership felt they had really beaten back the givebacks," she said, adding that she still thought the clerical workers deserved higher salary increases...
...based in Tuscaloosa, is the largest of the several independent groups which, together, comprise "the Klan". Overall Klan membership reached its all-time high of three million to five million in the nativist 1920's and surged again up to 55,000 in response to the Civil Rights Movement of the 1960's. It reached a recent peak of 13,000 in 1981, the same year Klansmen killed Michael Donald, but has been dropping ever since. The Klan today has 6500 members...