Word: railroads
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Since Walter Reuther's United Automobile Workers walked out in 1968, no union has left the AFL-CIO. But now the largest U.S. railroad union, the 90,000- member United Transportation Union, has decided to uncouple itself from the national labor federation. One of the main reasons for the split is that an AFL-CIO official, Robert Georgine, became vice chairman of the Alliance for Coal and Competitive Transportation, a lobbying group that supports legislation to permit coal-slurry pipelines. Railroad workers oppose the pipelines because they would take coal-hauling business away from trains...
...performance opened with "Blues Suite"--set to jazz and blues music--a piece that Ailey created in 1958 about people and places from his hometown in Texas. As Ailey explained in his introduction, the train sounds we hear during "Blues Suite" echo those he heard growing up near a railroad track...
Homeless people have camped out in the Santa Barbara area since the Southern Pacific Railroad came to town in 1887. But never before have they seemed so omnipresent. Some attribute the worst of the problem to the wholesale release of patients in the 1960s. Without adequate halfway houses to care for them, the ill ended up on the streets. Others believe homelessness has been aggravated by unemployment, divorce and eviction; people sleep in the parks because they cannot afford the city's high-priced housing: two-bedroom apartments rarely rent for less than $800 a month, after two months' deposit...
...increasing number of firms are testing not only applicants but also certain classes of current employees. Rockwell, for example, makes test pilots give periodic urine samples. Dozens of companies, including the Los Angeles Times, Southern Pacific railroad and Georgia Power, an electric utility, now demand that employees take drug tests if their supervisors think they may be impaired. All the major U.S. oil companies have instituted such a policy for workers on drilling rigs. Since last month, a Federal Railroad Administration regulation has required some 100,000 employees who operate U.S. railroads to undergo urinalysis whenever their supervisors think they...
...SANCTUARY: THE NEW UNDERGROUND RAILROAD by R. Golden and M. McConnell, sold by the Thomas More Bookstore...