EU's proposed inner core, and for Central Europeans who are already worried that they will be treated as not-quite-first-class Union members once in, this jars.
Apparently, only middle class union members matter.
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Large scale manufacturing, union power, a strong middle class and the music that became the soundtrack for American life all can claim roots in Motown.
They appear to be losing their grip on voting blocs that once were bedrock supporters: working-class whites, and especially working-class white men, whose union roots made their parents and grandparents loyal Democrats, as well as rural citizens and senior citizens, whose gratitude for New Deal economic and modernization programs pulled them to the Democrats.
He focused on what he saw was the impact of immigration in working-class communities and on the European Union.
Perino, analyzing 232 class action settlements, found that union funds showed no evidence of playing law firms against one another to drive down fees, while large state funds did.
An interesting little insight into how the ruling class works over here inside the European Union.
Union leader Geoff Martin predicted that the working-class demands would prevail.
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Clinton and Obama frequently address issues that hit home for unions -- wages, protection of the right to form unions, health insurance, cutting taxes for the middle class and reworking trade agreements that some union members blame for job loss.
"As the daughter of parents who worked in factories, paid their union dues and achieved their goal of a middle class life, and as the first Latina to head a major federal agency, it has been an incredible honor to serve, " she wrote.
The single drawback was that because Union, like Hillside, was a Gentile working-class town, my father would most likely be the only Jew in an office of some thirty-five people, my mother the only Jewish woman on our street, and Sandy and I the only Jewish kids in our school.
When American companies dominated the car market, the union negotiated fat contracts that lifted its members into the middle class.
He has formidable intellectual powers: possessor of a first-class degree, ex-president of the Oxford Union, and an ex-consultant with McKinsey.
Mr. FRED CHAMBERLAIN (Member, The Boilermakers Union): You know, he's all about the middle class, you know?
Not pension officials, to be sure, but we here at Forbes have documented a pervasive culture of pay-to-play in the securities class-action bar, in which lawyers wine and dine union and government pension officials to get in on obscenely lucrative business of settling securities lawsuits.
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For more than 40 years Europe's political class has signed up to the narrative of "ever-closer union".
In the second decision, a federal judge in New York chucked out a class-action suit after discovering that the plaintiff, a labor-union pension fund, never owned the shares it claimed it lost money on.
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Meantime, U.S. President Obama gave a State of the Union address that touched on foreign affairs, was heavy on the plight of the middle class, but nowhere mentioned the dollar and the world circling around it.
Depending on the number of first-class seats available, if a coach takes one over a player, then one player, as determined by the union, is entitled to be paid the difference between the value of the first-class seat and the value of the coach seat he was forced to endure.
The most optimistic Americans are Hispanics (84%) and African Americans (86%), liberals (84%), moderates (57%), 18-29 year olds (57%), 30-49 year olds (59%), Catholics (61%), union members (67%), Weekly Wal-Mart Shoppers (61%), Investor Class (61%), NASCAR Fans 57%, Catholics (60%), and Creative Class (61%).
Friday, he will head to Chicago to continue his campaign for the main proposals of the State of the Union address, which emphasized themes of his re-election campaign last year, including equal opportunity and middle-class growth.
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