Word: unioned
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...Coalition does not even take on one of the UFW's main assertions: workers are not free to unionize or to express grievances. The Coalition points to the small size of the union as proof that workers feel satisfied by conditions, but growers have routinely intimidated their workers with the threat of being fired to prevent them from participating. It is not good enough for individual Harvard students to choose each morning if grapes should be shunned; as student body we need to stand up and be heard, for the rights of those workers toiling away in California. Vote...
...United Farm Workers (UFW) calls for a national boycott of table grapes, citing low wages for workers and protesting the policies of Republican California Governor George Duekmejian. The boycott is the third the union has called in its history...
...Court case of Gregg v. Georgia decided that the death penalty does not violate the Eighth Amendment. From a "framer's intent" perspective, the Founders could not possibly have meant to exclude capital punishment from the Constitution since the death penalty was quite prevalent in every part of the Union in the late 18th century. If society decides that capital punishment is in fact cruel and unusual, it ought to amend the Constitution to outlaw it; the death penalty thus falls well within the category of institutions to be established by the majority on a state-by-state basis...
Receiving less money for their grapes, the employers will either cut down on employment, leaving already destitute grape pickers unemployed, or will lower the quality of life for the grape pickers even more. The only party that stands to profit from the boycott is the United Farm workers Union, and the union benefits at the cost of all non-unionized workers. By claiming that supporting the boycott somehow upholds human rights, the dean's office makes the implicit statement that only unionized grape pickers have human rights, a statement that ought to be rejected by all thinking human beings...
Since Carey's union learned of his ouster, the race to take his place in the upcoming election has seemed headed for turmoil. Top contenders include George Cashman, who heads a large Boston local, and Ken Hall, a chief negotiator in the UPS strike last summer. Front runner Tom Leedham, who heads the Teamsters' warehouse division, has the backing of the influential Teamsters for a Democratic Union. But Hoffa charged last week that contributors like Gail Zappa--wife of rock singer Frank Zappa--had made contributions to the reform group that were arranged by the Democratic National Committee. That brought...