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La Unión
La Unión town (1990 pop. 15,144), Murcia prov., SE Spain. It is a center for the rich lead, silver, iron, manganese, and zinc mines of the vicinity, which have been worked since Carthaginian times.
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 "Star Tribune (Minneapolis, MN)")
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Labor; Unions are getting organized, mobilized Stung by '94 election results, big labor is putting big money and intense effort into politics this year.(NEWS)
Newspaper article from: Star Tribune (Minneapolis, MN); 9/2/1996; ; 700+ words
; ...last week, organized labor was visible. Brightly...four delegates was a union member. Labor rallies...podium, the first time a union leader has done so...he said. "And our unions are back, and we will...program is typical of what unions throughout the country...massive education ...
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Italy: future of labor unions on the line.
News Wire article from: United Press International; 3/27/2002; 700+ words
; ...which includes several labor groups, had a hand...tragedy's effect on the unions, galvanizing opposition...To wit: a labor union protest in Rome only...minister must view the labor unions as the main danger to...underestimated the power of the unions in 1994, but I ...
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ITALY: FUTURE OF LABOR UNIONS ON THE LINE
News Wire article from: United Press International; 3/27/2002; 700+ words
; ...which includes several labor groups, had a hand...tragedy's effect on the unions, galvanizing opposition...focused. To wit: a labor union protest in Rome only...minister must view the labor unions as the main danger to...underestimated the power of the unions in 1994, but I ...
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Labor Unions, Partisan Coalitions, and Market Reforms in Latin America
Magazine article from: Latin American Politics and Society; 10/1/2003; ; 700+ words
; ...challenges come from rival unions. This type of competition weakens the labor movement's capacity to influence...posits that competition among unions saps the labor movement's...enables the government to play unions off against each other. Conversely, when a union faces little or no ...
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Labor unions' share of voter turnout lower than expected.
Newspaper article from: Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News; 11/4/2004; 700+ words
; ...Business News Nov. 4--Labor unions, a pillar of John Kerry...a possible sign that unions may be peaking in electoral...have a ceiling in [union] household voters...Nationwide, 200,000 union volunteers passed out...In Pennsylvania, unions mobilized more than...and worksites. "If ...
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Labor Unions Feeling Pressure to Change
News Wire article from: AP Online; 10/14/2005; ; 700+ words
; ...Gettelfinger during the Labor Day parade in Detroit...season for labor unions. Auto supplier...putting thousands of union jobs on the line...judge to void its labor contracts if the company and the union fail to agree on...new terms with its unions. Doing so would...That bodes ...
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Analysis: Labor unions play strong role in campaigns of Democratic presidential candidates
Transcript from: NPR Morning Edition; 1/15/2004; ; 700+ words
; ...public sector and service unions have been drawn to the energy...umbrella group for the state's unions. His organization is neutral...political infighting among labor groups here is not damaging union solidarity. Mr. MARK SMITH...out here and certainly most unions--that the real enemy, ...
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New Congress Changes Prospects for Labor Unions
Transcript from: NPR Weekend Edition - Sunday; 3/4/2007; ; 700+ words
; ...Changes Prospects for Labor Unions Host: LIANE HANSEN...for employees to join unions. Republicans in the...says he'll veto it. Union membership in the United...election with the National Labor Relations Board once...requirement of the law. Most unions in practice actually...workers ...
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 "Daily News (Los Angeles, CA)")
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Los Angeles-area labor unions face tough choices.
Newspaper article from: Daily News (Los Angeles, CA); 9/6/2004; 700+ words
; ...sure we have a united labor front rather than be...but he plans to let union members know he has...last time, I had some union support, but the other...had most of the major unions," Hahn said. "But...support I have given the union movement." In the...support of city employee unions. ...
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LABOR: UNIONS WORLDWIDE SUFFER DECLINE IN MEMBERSHIP
News Wire article from: Inter Press Service English News Wire; 10/23/2001; ; 700+ words
; ...international federation of unions meeting here. Workers...commitment to a labor association. The union movement says it...difficulty trade unions have in penetrating...production. The new labor market is characterized...and by the scant union representation of...silence about ...
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SIC 8631 Labor Unions and Similar Labor Organizations
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of American Industries
...average of $587 per week, whereas union members earned $740. Unions faced a number of challenges in the...these concerns was the nature of the labor union itself. The sharply diminishing ranks of unions during the previous 30 years combined...
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Labor Unions
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of Business and Finance, 2nd ed.
LABOR UNIONS A labor union has been defined as...GROWTH Even with so much union organization activity...were fewer than 1 million union members in the United States in 1900. Membership in labor unions grew slowly from 1920...
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Labor Unions and Small Business
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of Small Business
...construction and manufacturing labor was unionized. In wholesale...cost/benefit reasons unions have tended in the past...gotten a pass from the union movement —...created the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB...fellow workers into a union — but also...coerced into joining a ...
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labor unions
Book article from: A Dictionary of Contemporary World History
labor unions, see trade unions
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Labor Union
Encyclopedia entry from: West's Encyclopedia of American Law
LABOR UNION An association...history of labor unions in the United States...workers quit the union and returned to work...American Railway Union struck the Pullman...these setbacks, labor unions gradually increased...
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