Moreover, Title VII of the 1964 Civil Rights Act allows religious objectors opposed to joining a union to direct all money they would normally pay in union dues or agency fees to a non-religious charity of their choice.
Lisbon's demise will have relatively little direct impact on the Union's ability to play a role on the world stage.
He said he was not involved in the direct talks with the union, because his focus was instead on talking to affected customers.
EU's gift: the Union has few direct powers to regulate industrial disputes or national health services.
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Under European Union rules, direct subsidies to companies are strictly forbidden, but industry subsidies are treated more lightly.
Mr Papandreou wants to avoid direct confrontation with his trade union supporters, but the need to re-establish fiscal credibility ought to have come first.
Bavaria's ruling party, the Christian Social Union, credits direct democracy with giving citizens a way to disagree with the government on single issues without voting for the opposition.
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The Deputy Prime Minister, Nick Clegg, has again warned Conservative eurosceptic MPs that seeking looser ties with the European Union will have a direct effect on jobs.
Repeated calls by the Quartet of Middle East negotiators (from the United States, Russia, the European Union and the UN) for direct Israeli-Palestinian talks have been ignored.
However, the union has stopped short of asking for direct compensation.
"It's not typical of discretionary-funding projects to have a more advocacy angle....What's different is that this is for advocacy more than for direct services, " said Rachael Fauss of Citizens Union, a nonprofit group that closely observes city and state budgets.
Russia sees any foreign project that touches the former Soviet Union, including the European Union's new eastern partnership, as a direct challenge.
At busy times, the union claims, that can mean callers to NHS Direct Wales having to wait longer for their calls to be answered.
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The Unison union claimed the job losses would have a "serious and direct impact on patient care".
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Imagine convulsive, Florida-type wrangling going on in every state in the union, which is what could happen if we had a direct popular vote.
Direct government supervision of the Teamsters dates back to 1989, when the union settled a racketeering lawsuit over the union's alleged ties to organized crime.
Inevitably, the countries in the closer economic union will want greater control, for example, over the financial sector with direct impact on Britain.
Mr. LARRY SABATO (University of Virginia, Political Scientist): This has a direct impact on the Democratic Party because the vast majority of money, manpower and materiel that the union movement supplies in politics goes directly to the Democratic candidates for Congress and for president.
Despite a lack of any direct evidence that Boeing was being punitive, and the fact that the company was not laying off any union workers, the NLRB has not backed down.
The National Farmers' Union (NFU) said it reluctantly accepted the pre-emptive cull but others are warning of direct action against the measure.
The mall has a Western Union office, one of 31 opened last month throughout the island, to which dollars can be wired direct from the United States.
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