Word: unionizers
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...rather have someone who knows the issues than someone who spends two or three years learning them." - Enrique Morones, San Diego pro-immigration activist, on Bersin's previous experience working on the border, (San Diego Union-Tribune, April...
...Teachers can't believe it. We Are worried about the future. Alan Bersin is a dictator who never took the opinion of the classroom teacher." - Barbara Scott, elementary school teacher, upon the announcement that Bersin would be state education secretary, (San Diego Union-Tribune, April...
...represent death to us." - Christian Ramirez, Raza Rights Coalition protester, during a San Diego town hall meeting. Latino activists have been vocal opponents of Bersin over the years due to their perception that Operation Gatekeeper resulted in the death of many border crossers, (San Diego Union-Tribune, June...
...shortage of qualified people. Indians and Filipinos are most in demand on international vessels because they speak English. But many Indian seafarers are now refusing to do the Gulf of Aden run. "Sailors are very apprehensive, very jerky," says Sunil Nair, spokesman for the Mumbai-based National Union of Seafarers of India (NUSI), which has some 80,000 members. He says that since the spate of hijackings last year - when there were 72 attacks and 52 hijackings - more sailors who switch companies are trying to "join ones that don't do that run." (See pictures of dramatic rescues of pirate...
...flotilla of some 500 boats that had blocked the ports of Calais, Boulogne and Dunkirk since Tuesday weren't protesting the recession as such, but rather European Union fishing quotas that the fishermen claim further undermine already slumping business. Still, their move to bring trans-Channel traffic to a creep - and shut down ferry service altogether - paralleled similarly muscular action by workers across France who have taken the law into their own hands to protect their jobs. (See pictures of France on fire...