Word: unionizers
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...workers were recognized as a union, and they spoke collectively and with one voice—that’s always a different arena to talk to your employer in," Jacobs said...
Harvard’s security guards will receive a long-awaited increase in their starting wages, the opportunity for an escalating pay scale, and a new grievance procedure—among other benefits—as part of a contract negotiated by the Service Employees International Union (SEIU) and the guard’s employer, AlliedBarton...
...temples by relocating them to higher ground. Today, the process is a good deal more official than that - almost like the Oscars of the environment. Any country is eligible to send in a list of nominees for protection. The candidates are then independently evaluated by two organizations - World Conservation Union and the International Council on Monuments and Sites - which in turn make a recommendation to the World Heritage Committee. That body votes on which sites will become new members; last year, 18 were accepted. "It really is a democratic process," says Christian Manhart, chief of communication, education and partnerships...
...timing of Ruby's assault on Oswald also fails to fit any tidy conspiracy. If he had been stalking Oswald, why was he in a Western Union office wiring $25 to one of his strippers, Karen Carlin, at 11:17 a.m. that Sunday? Not even the Dallas police knew when their interrogation of Oswald would end and when he would be transferred to custody of the county sheriff. In fact, a U.S. postal inspector had unexpectedly dropped in on the questioning and joined the quizzing. That held up the transfer by at least half an hour; without the delay, Ruby...
This pattern, these writers say, fits a stalking of Oswald. But why did Ruby go off to Western Union at a crucial moment? It was a prearranged plan to make the killing look spontaneous, they reply. Someone signaled Ruby when Oswald's move began. They imply that a cop did this; they...