Word: non-union
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...first primary," says TIME's James Carney. "Gore is definitely running, and while Gephardt stopped short of admitting it, he is certainly Gore's leading competition." It was a tough crowd. Both Democrats tried to assuage union concerns that welfare reform will flood the job market with low-paid, non-union labor, hence further undermining organized labor. While Gephardt, a longtime friend of labor whose father was a Teamster, promised to introduce legislation to encourage former welfare recipients finding new jobs to join unions, Gore promised that President Clinton would veto any bill that forces employees to choose between overtime...
Nurses also said they were concerned about proposals to change health care coverage and the seniority system, which provides higher pay for more experienced nurses, and the hospital's assertion that is has the right to transfer unionized nurses to other non-union hospitals in the Partners HealthCare network, such as Mass. General...
...several weeks, represenatives from Carpenters' Local 40 have been picketing outside William James Hall and Lowell House, where contractors have hired non-union labor for various construction projects...
North of the Yard, several other union members were picketing in protest of C.E. Floyd, the contractor for a renovation to the ninth floor of William James. C.E. Floyd has been the target of previous Local 40 protests, most recently for its use of non-union labor in the renovation of the Harvard-affiliated Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics...
...Union leaders had reacted angrily to the possibility that the University would use non-union subcontractors...