The Employee Free Choice Act would make it much easier for workers to form a union.
She adds that when she tried to form a union, she was threatened with the sack and blacklisting.
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Labor groups have tried for years to form a union, filing dozens of complaints with the National Labor Relations Board.
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So they vote rather boldly to form a union of their own, a separate subcaste of freethinking writer-warriors to be known as Kayasthas.
Almost every strike at the numerous factories in the Gurgaon-Manesar region in the past decade has started with companies refusing to recognize the demand of workers to form a union.
From the strike at Maruti in 2000 to the one at Honda Motorcycles and Scooters India (HMSI) in 2005 and the one at Rico Auto in 2009, the one common demand was to form a union.
We are going to make sure that the National Labor Relations Board is restored to have some balance so that if workers want to form a union, they can at least get a fair vote in a reasonable amount of time.
We can adapt as part of our never-ending effort to form a more perfect union.
By eliminating the legal incentives to form a majority supported union, organizations would look and feel much different.
Words that began our never-ending journey to form a more perfect union.
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It is a story about rising to the occasion and overcoming our own limitations and doubts, to serve the higher calling of liberty and forever working to form a more perfect union.
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My friends, at every turning point in our history, we, the people, have chosen unity over division, heeding our founders' call to America's eternal mission to form a more perfect union, to widen the circle of opportunity deep in the reach of freedom and strengthen the bonds of our community.
He has suggested replacing register office marriages and civil partnerships with a new form of civil union to "strengthen the concept that marriage is a union between one man and one woman, to leave that to faith to implement".
Of course one can imagine a situation where the firm and a majority of workers do wish to form the union and would voluntarily negotiate a contract which makes dues a mandatory condition of employment.
The Eurozone leaders have made no progress in facing up the real problem: either they must form a true nation state union that eliminates the nation sovereignty of the Eurozone by merging all power into one central government resulting in the elimination of national governments or they must disband the Euro.
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Alas, our differences were too great to form the basis of a permanent union.
Because no single party won the majority of seats, the meetings held on May 7th instead addressed the more pressing question of how to form a government, leaving the union leaders out in the cold.
President Zuma later said he rejected "foreign military intervention, whatever its form, " echoing a different African Union position.
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The thing about a formal banking union for the eurozone, of the sort recommended by Jose Manuel Barroso, President of the European Commission, is that it is a covert or backdoor form of fiscal union (see today's FT for more on this).
As evidence, union officials provided a state form filled out by DOE officials that said the evaluation system would be in effect for two years, ending with the 2013-14 school year.
To be sure, one of his predecessors nearly 30 years ago and under altogether different strategic circumstances decided to give the Soviet Union a veto over American missile defenses in the form of the ABM Treaty.
And it seems almost certain that the former European Union commissioner, Mario Monti, will be asked to form a new administration.
The American Civil Liberties Union has "always supported explosive detection as a good form of security that doesn't really invade privacy, " said Jay Stanley, an attorney and privacy expert with the organization.
In part to satisfy Lieberman - without whom he cannot form a government - and in part because he remembers that it was the National Union which brought down his government 10 years ago, Netanyahu began his coalition building talks with Kadima.
With two other unions, the International Teamsters and the Food Workers, representing around 7, 000 California farm workers, the probability is that only two in every 100 of the labourers toiling in the California fields are represented by a union even though farm workers in California have had the freedom to form unions since 1975.
There is a growing notion among economists and analysts that the European Union cannot, in its current form, survive the debt crisis.
In response to this threat, the European Union (EU) is looking into building a stockpile of REEs, in the form of a mixed carbonate of these metals.
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