Word: unionizers
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...season to the strike. "I don't support the way they did it. I wish they would have stayed at the table and we all would have stayed working." Lapidus's tone is considerably more measured than that of Thomas Short, the president of the below-the-line workers' union, the International Association of Theatrical Stage Employees (IATSE), who likens the WGA leadership to "a huge clown car that's only missing the hats and horns." (IATSE currently represents the reality and animation writers the WGA wants to count...
...organizers said. The program falls under the umbrella of the Genocide Intervention Network, an organization founded by Swarthmore College students in 2004. “Outside the immediate spheres of these camps there is anarchy,” said McEachern. “It’s where African Union troops do not have control and women risk their lives collecting firewood because they could be abducted, raped and even killed by Janjaweed militia.” The money also provides alternative energy sources such as solar-powered cookers to reduce the need to search for firewood. The campaign leaves...
...While Obama pursues his comprehensive caucus strategy, his chief rivals, who benefit from the vast majority of union endorsements, have taken a more targeted approach. Edwards, the only Democrat who has been to all 99 of Iowa's counties, is focusing on turning out rural caucus-goers, said Dan Leistikow, Edwards' Iowa spokesman. Clinton is focusing her efforts on women, a natural constituency for the former First Lady that is ripe for the picking. In 2004, just 66,690 of 340,241 female registered Democrats in Iowa caucused, or just 20%, compared to the 281,049, or 83%, who voted...
...Americas" refrain sounded like the familiar trope of class warfare. "One America does the work while another America reaps the reward," Edwards intoned. "One America pays the taxes while another America gets the tax breaks." But as Edwards took it on the road-into living rooms and union halls and diners and high school gyms-it grew and evolved into something much, much bigger, into a cause. "The more I talked about it, the more it became internal," Edwards says. "I understood pretty quickly after that, this is who I am. This is what I believe...
...reason for this flying circus? Portugal, which currently holds the union's presidency, insisted that the treaty be signed on Portuguese soil and enter the history books as the Treaty of Lisbon. But under the E.U.'s Nice Treaty in 2000, all formal summits must take place in Brussels, home of the E.U.'s main institutions. So the leaders are obliged to meet in the Belgian capital for their scheduled summit, due to take place the day after the signing ceremony...