Word: unioned
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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While panel discussions were initially wellattended, attendance wanted as the conference drewon. The featured panel discussion yesterdaymorning--"Student Labor Activism: The Union SummerProgram and Beyond"--was so poorly attended thatit had to be rescheduled...
However, the opportunity to meet with youngactivists drew representatives from a broadspectrum of labor organizations. Daisy M. Rooks,who is in charge of campus recruiting for theAFLCIO, urged students to attend "Union Summer," aprogram which teaches organizational skills andencourages students to become labor activists oncethey return to school...
...Telecom Italia's management prevails in their battle, Telecom's shareholders have already earned a nice premium. Europe's cosseted work force, on the other hand, has not yet fully come to grips with what those investment banking euphemisms like "synergies" and "restructuring" can mean. As their American union counterparts discovered a decade ago, mergers will make Europe's largest firms more efficient and competitive, but they will do so by shedding thousands of jobs. And in Europe, where unemployment levels are more than twice as high as in the U.S., that could give new intensity to the term hostile...
Schools need money. Students have plenty of it to spend: $72 billion for all kids through high school, according to the most recent figures from Consumers Union. Those twin economic pressures have led to a disturbing trend on school grounds. In the past nine months, public school exclusivity deals with cola companies have soared 300%, to a record 150. And that's just the most obvious signal that schools are open for business. Calvin Klein models pout on the covers of textbooks; homecoming may be sponsored by Dr Pepper; Taco Bell dishes up burritos at a school cafeteria near...
...brief but spectacular marriage of Dennis Rodman and Carmen Electra is officially over. The union lasted only five months, but the two experienced as many highs and lows as a couple married twice as long. A few of the most noteworthy...