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After the Bolshevik Revolution, the mansion served as a shelter for the homeless until 1934 when Stalin turned it over to the recently formed Union of Soviet Writers (USW). The Oak Hall became the most coveted, élitist and inexpensive restaurant in the country. Stalin himself visited on occasion, but it was a regular haunt for Lavrenti Beria, his secret police henchman notoriously given to perfidy, cruelty and lust...
...generous terms, while leaving health and benefit plans unfunded to the tune of $1 billion, workers at the Middleton, Ohio, mill demanded an election to dump a 50-year-old company association and replace it with a United Steelworkers local. The election was held in May, and the USW seemed to win, though nobody actually knows yet: the company got the NLRB to issue an injunction impounding the ballots...
After the Ravenswood Aluminum Co. locked out members of the USW from a mill in West Virginia and hired nonunion workers to replace them, the AFL-CIO traced the company's ownership to Marc Rich. He is a former commodities speculator who fled the U.S., pursued by a flock of indictments, and rules interests throughout Europe. For almost two years, at the U.S. federation's request, unions in 20 countries harassed and disrupted Rich's activities until, in mid-1992, he ended the West Virginia lockout...
...least 46 employees must be working if a vote is to be held, Serna said. He added that the USW believes that the ranch is withholding some names to prevent an election from taking place, as well as denying work to more than 10 employees because of their involvement in the unionization proces...
Workers will probably have to wait another month before the Agriculture and Labor Relations Board issues its decision on whether or not Stanford and Webb Ranch are co-employers, as the USW contends, Wagner said last week...