He dated a local union boss named Carla Katz, whose Communications Workers of America represented many state employees.
Cohen, who has been leading the talks since last year, says the agreement remains subject to ratification by both parties and additional local union negotiations.
Tenacious, pragmatic and determined, Ms Gordillo began her union activities in the state of Mexico in the early 1970s, eventually becoming the protege of local union leader, Carlos Jonguitud Barrios.
The company also has just emerged from a spate of labor problems, with two local union strikes at key factories and a nearly three-month strike at key parts maker American Axle and Manufacturing Holdings.
We were introduced by the local union rep, and this night, like every night, the crowd cheered when they heard the name Diciembre, the lights bobbing up and down, as the miners nodded with satisfaction.
That's the message from a December 27-28 memo to local union presidents and board members from Michigan Education Association President Steven Cook, which recommends tactics that unions can use to dilute the impact of the right-to-work law.
And, according to Professor Hyman, this also weakened the power of local union activists like shop stewards, and unions adopted a more "strategic" use of power, where strike were the last resort, not the first course of action.
Mines belonging to AngloGold Ashanti have ceased production for almost a month, while workers at another Gold Fields mine - KDC East - have not yet returned to work but this relates to a local union dispute not wages.
The company also has just emerged from a spate of labor problems, with two local union strikes at key factories and a nearly three-month strike at key parts maker American Axle and Manufacturing Holdings (nyse: AXL - news - people ).
The next morning we picked up the check from the local credit union branch.
For consumers fed up with fees, check out your local credit union or community bank.
Both advocated radical changes to the educational system, which brought clashes with the local teachers union.
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Once the ads began airing Thursday, they drew the ire of a local firefighters union that backs Sen.
Contact the local electrical union first so that imported workers could be signed up as members before they arrived.
My first targeted account (which was actually held at a local credit union) was used to purchase a Nintendo Wii.
One small business owner I spoke with said he had better luck getting his loan approved by local credit union in suburban Maryland after being denied by two big banks.
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Because the law encourages courts to hand class action work to firms with the biggest clients, lawyers are in an arms race to line up suit-happy state, local and union pension funds.
The head of the local teachers union, Brenda Mitchell of United Teachers of New Orleans, says that state overseers have turned this year into chaos by letting schools open at different times, under different forms of leadership.
And rightfully so, considering that federal investigators had only discovered the kickback scheme conspiracy by happenstance while investigating a local government employee named Nathaniel Ham for largely unrelated crimes at a local credit union where he served as a member of the board of directors.
Three car washes have signed union contracts, and employees are now members of the local United Steelworkers union.
The Transport Workers Union Local 100 wants wage increases pegged to inflation, the first specific salary demands made in negotiations between the transit union and the MTA, according to people close to the negotiations.
The window-cleaning division of Service Employees International Union Local 32BJ, one of the largest unions, counts 800 members.
If approved, the new chairman will likely resume labor negotiations with the MTA's largest union, Transport Workers Union Local 100.
Some 5, 000 people also applied for an additional 200 jobs at the mine, said Giorgos Arvanitis, general secretary of the local miners' union.
Ursetta, then president of a local teachers' union, blurted out those words 18 months ago during a meeting in the office of Denver, Colorado's, schools superintendent.
The head of the hospital's union local, Martha Baker, says expanding Medicaid would provide coverage to a million or more Floridians who currently don't have it.
Back in Rhode Island, Gallo said this week that she is willing to negotiate now that the local teachers' union has agreed to support the changes she proposed.
The rally was addressed by local politicians and union representatives.
"They've been upgrading the fan plants and the pump plants little by little, " said Pete Foley, an official with Transport Workers Union Local 100, which represents many bus and subway workers.
"Because of this strike, we have gained the support of many political allies in the city, in the state, " Michael Cordiello, president of the Amalgamated Transit Union Local 1181, said on a conference call to members.
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