Word: unioned
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...prove what antiabortion groups like the Catholic Conference have long warned: that some women having to choose between raising a child without cash benefits and having an abortion paid for by Medicaid will pick abortion. And the report is likely to become exhibit A for the American Civil Liberties Union and the NOW Legal and Educational Defense Fund, which are suing to repeal the law. This strange sorority of opponents also contends that the cap unfairly penalizes the 25,000 children born without benefits and has a disproportionate effect on African Americans...
...long-running Holocaust reparations dispute isn't over yet. Switzerland's three biggest banks decided Friday to offer a maximum of $600 million to settle class actions from concentration camp inmates and their descendants. "By all legitimate criteria," said a joint statement from Credit Suisse, Swiss Bank Corp and Union Bank of Switzerland, "this is a fair offer...
...parts to supply its assembly lines nationwide, and conservative estimates put the company's losses at $50 million a day. The workers stand to take a big financial hit themselves; if they do not return to work by June 26, they lose a week's worth of union-won "holiday pay" for the first half of GM's annual two-week plant shutdown, which begins June...
Then, a few weeks ago, Sam Donaldson said on This Week that if unions were forced to get permission from individual members to use their dues for political contributions, why shouldn't corporations be made to do the same with stockholders' money? The difference, George Will explained wearily, was that a disgruntled union member had no choice about belonging to the union, but a stockholder who didn't like what a corporation was doing could simply sell his stock. Mike's wife said, "Why don't you sell your ADM stock...
Mitchell was responding to a federal lawsuit filed last week by 11 black motorists and backed by the American Civil Liberties Union and the Maryland N.A.A.C.P. The suit claims that state troopers, who have stepped up efforts to nail drug couriers, have targeted blacks on Interstate 95, a favored route for weapon and drug smuggling...