Georgia already has an estimated 5, 000 union and non-union professionals associated with the film industry along with more than 1, 000 production suppliers and support companies.
We have to stop, you know, pitting union members against non-union members, people in Medicare against people who are out of it, people who have insurance already against those who don't and really start talking about what does it actually mean to have a universal system the way that we have Social Security.
One fast-growing grassroots organisation is Working America, an affiliate of the AFL-CIO which links union members and non-union workers to campaign for better jobs, higher standards in education and, above all, health-care reform. (Any progress on this front under the Obama administration will be claimed as a success by both AFL-CIO and the breakaway coalition led by Mr Stern.) Moreover, grassroots union activism in several swing states helped Mr Obama to victory.
Both nationally and locally, union power has eroded as non-union employers offer bonuses to newly hired workers, and thick wage-and-benefits packages to retain them.
It usually reflects the union wage and makes it more difficult for non-union contractors to compete for government contracts.
Charter schools in Chicago employ non-union teachers, and some also receive funding from non-profits.
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It is estimated that 100 percent of union plan participants and more than 99 percent of non-union plan participants will receive the full amount of normal retirement pension benefits that have already vested.
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Like all major Las Vegas hotel casinos, the Sands was a union hotel when Adelson bought it, but the Venetian was non-union.
When Master Lock looked at their numbers, they saw that union workers in America could do the same job at competitive costs as non-union workers in China.
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In addition, many of the alleged benefits of joining, say, a teachers union liability insurance, for instance can be procured from non-union professional associations (such as the Association of American Educators) at far less than the cost of union dues.
Many of these states have right-to-work laws, which make it easier for employees to remain non-union.
The latest problem: actor guilds are threatening to boycott the non-union production in New Zealand.
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We have successfully elevated the participation of workers that were both non-union and union.
At issue was whether director Peter Jackson was shooting the film using non-union actors.
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The bosses made secret attempts to train non-union labour well ahead of the dispute.
Its non-union ones are 10% more profitable, says Mr Sorenson, mostly because of more flexible work rules.
One sticking point has been non-union tours, which are cheaper to produce but do not offer protection to performers.
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Even non-union companies have had to provide better benefits just to keep pace.
The non-union mini-mills have grown fivefold, and now claim nearly half the market.
Alazzeh claimed that 500 drivers were removed from the service in February and replaced, in some cases, with non-union drivers.
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Most new plants are going into the southern tier of states where labor is both cheaper and much more often, non-union.
Even if annual unit sales stay around 16 million units, foreign manufacturers are adding too much capacity in spanking-new non-union plants.
Furthermore, charter schools are almost always non-union, which means their teachers receive can receive lower compensation and have less job security.
But can he sell that populist message to non-union autoworkers and their bosses in right-to-work states like Tennessee, Alabama and South Carolina?
The non-union auto industry is flourishing in the south in right-to-work states.
Average wages of unionised workers were 11.5% higher than non-union workers.
The unions contend that Petrobras has been negligent about employee safety by hiring non-union workers who are not as well trained as their union counterparts.
The disputed non-union approved tours have become more popular in recent years, sparking fears that jobs are going to inexperienced actors who will work for less money.
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The dispute burst on to the streets and into the courts this week after Patrick, the company leading the charge, sacked its entire dockside workforce in favour of non-union labour.
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