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发帖数: 29846 | 1 By Brendon S. Peck
Confronted with an unwelcome intrusion, employees at a Target store in New
York rejected unionization and dealt a blow to the grand plans of the UFCW.
That average Americans continue to stand against these job-killing, profit-
leaching forces is most encouraging. But make no mistake, the fight is far
from over.
Labor unions are in decline and desperate. Today, union membership is under
12% of the U.S. workforce -- it was over 20% in the 1980's. Among retail
unions, like the... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 29846 | 2 In Harsh Economy, Union Demands Put Crimp in Businesses Across the Country:
Recent Stories Surrounding California Grocer
November 16, 2012 by Warner Todd Huston
The biggest union news this month is the pending closing of the Hostess
Brand snack cake corporation, a company that has been an American mainstay
for decades with such products Wonder Bread and Hostess Twinkies. As with
the Hostess case, unions repeatedly prove that they’d rather destroy a
business with absurd demands and strikes than w... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 36899 | 3
partial list of US unions，给翻译一下绝大部分是多少
AFL-CIO
(The American Federation of Labor - Congress of Industrial
Organizations)
Air Line Pilots Association ALPA
Amalgamated Transit Union ATU
American Federation of Government Employees AFGE
American Federation of Musicians of the United States and Canada AFM
American Federation of School Administrators AFSA
American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees AFSCME
American Federation of Teachers AFT
American Federation of Television and Radio... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 29846 | 4 by Jammie
It really is amazing how much attention a tiny group of rabble can muster up
on the news networks. Everywhere we looked last night national media was
covering temper tantrums against Walmart across the country even though the
attendance was miniscule. We suppose the frustration of the anti-capitalist
scum then led them to plan some arrests for further attention.
Nine people were arrested near a Walmart store in California on Friday
as part of national protests for the rights of hou... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 61690 | 5 Warning that presumptive Republican nominee Donald Trump is an "urgent
threat to our rights and to our country," Hillary Clinton on Thursday
sounded a similar note to the one expressed by liberal firebrand Sen.
Elizabeth Warren earlier this week.
"Two years ago Donald Trump personally signed a contract with a union-
busting firm to break up Unite Here’s organizing campaign at his hotel in
Las Vegas," Clinton said at the UFCW conference in the city where workers at
Trump's hotel voted to unionize... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 13821 | 6 A supermarket chain reached a tentative contract deal with workers who went
on strike earlier this month at stores in Northern California and Nevada,
officials said Tuesday.
The United Food and Commercial Workers union said picket lines would
immediately be withdrawn from all Raley's and Nob Hill stores.
"As one of the last large family-owned grocery chains, it will be great to
have everyone back working again," said Mike Teel, president of Raley's.
The parties did not provide any details of the... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 61690 | 7 【 以下文字转载自 USANews 讨论区 】
发信人: brihand (brihand), 信区: USANews
标 题: V5:拉里说trump是urgent threat
发信站: BBS 未名空间站 (Thu May 26 14:28:02 2016, 美东)
Warning that presumptive Republican nominee Donald Trump is an "urgent
threat to our rights and to our country," Hillary Clinton on Thursday
sounded a similar note to the one expressed by liberal firebrand Sen.
Elizabeth Warren earlier this week.
"Two years ago Donald Trump personally signed a contract with a union-
busting firm to break up Unite Here’s organi... 阅读全帖 |
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