Raphael Sonenshein, executive director of the Pat Brown Institute of Public Affairs at California State University Los Angeles, noted that old-fashioned boots-on-the-ground union campaigning won out in the hotly contested Zimmer-Anderson race.

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The GMB union is campaigning to keep the factory open.

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Alexis Bowater, the chief executive of a British charity, the Network for Surviving Stalking, is campaigning for European Union countries to adopt a common approach to stalking: only 12 out of 27 member states have specific laws against it.

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Pressed from all sides, the Scottish Tories have little option but doggedly to stick to their original plan of campaigning for the union, as Michael Forsyth, the Scottish secretary, made plain when he published the Tories' separate Scottish manifesto on April 2nd.

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In the 1990s, I earned my spurs campaigning for public acceptance of genetically-modified crops in the European Union.

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He did it only last month when making a speech to the Police Federation, a trade union that has a tradition of roughing up home secretaries and which has been campaigning aggressively against Mr Blunkett's attempts to get rid of some of its lucrative overtime scams and introduce much-needed new working practices.

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The United Auto Workers union already represents employees at several Flex-N-Gate factories, and is campaigning to organize others.

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But, really, this is right-to-work state, job-killing payback to union allies, who will return the favor with millions of dollars of campaign cash and door-knocking campaigning.

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