Fewer workers in labor unions, to name one important example, means fewer workers talking to one another at the union hall.
From Baltimore, I took a short 23km drive east, past farms and guesthouses that dotted the headlands and fields, to the village of Union Hall.
You see it every campaign season: A Democratic candidate for Congress or governor or mayor or the state legislature or for president standing on a stage at a union hall seeking the votes of working people.
Now, let there be no doubt, it will take an unprecedented effort on all our parts -- from the halls of Congress to the boardroom, from the union hall to the factory floor -- to see the auto industry through these difficult times.
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Last December, the council voted to restrict the flying of the Union flag over city hall to designated dates.
Conway at the annual Keeper of the Flame Award Dinner in the East Hall at Union Station in Washington, DC.
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Mr Robinson said the controversy over flying the union flag at Belfast City Hall had been a "disaster" for Northern Ireland.
Ten police officers were injured in disturbances after a protest against restrictions on flying the union flag at Belfast City Hall.
That evening, Belfast City Council voted to fly the union flag at the city hall on designated days only rather than every day.
The Alliance Party MP said the issue of the flying of the union flag at Belfast City Hall should have been addressed long ago.
They began last Monday night when Belfast City Council voted to change its policy of permanently flying the union flag at Belfast City Hall.
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Members of the National Union of Teachers at Hamstead Hall School, Handsworth Wood, are worried as it will take it out of local authority control.
The Lagan Valley MLA Basil McCrea is due to face an internal disciplinary hearing for publicly criticising his party's stance over flying the union flag at Belfast City Hall.
On 3 December an Alliance Party compromise to fly the union flag at Belfast City Hall on designated days, rather than remove it altogether as Sinn Fein and SDLP proposed, was voted through.
Ms Villiers told the House of Commons 66 police officers had been injured since violence first flared up following the decision to restrict the flying of the union flag at Belfast City Hall.
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But mingling with his audience of business, political and trade union leaders in Birmingham Town Hall, I found many of them thought there was no other way of interpreting his call for dozens of government initiatives to be scrapped.
Mountford Hall, the university union's 3, 000 capacity live music venue, will also be refurbished under the plans.
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That is the same advice that was given over flying the union flag every day at city hall.
Belfast councillors voted on 3 December to limit the days the union flag flies over Belfast City Hall.
They were erected over the past number of weeks, coinciding with the ongoing union flag dispute at Belfast City Hall.
Jimmy Birch acknowledges that the union flag decision at Belfast City Hall was a democratic vote and says politics is the only way the issue can be resolved.
Although the union flag is flying over Belfast City Hall, it has not been raised over Parliament Buildings, Stormont.
Hundreds of postal workers and members of the Communication Workers' Union attended a rally at Methodist Central Hall in Westminster.
The dates coincided with a controversial vote by Belfast City Council to limit the number of days the union flag is flown from the city hall.
Loyalist protesters have been staging street demonstrations since 3 December, when Belfast City Council voted to restrict the number of days the union flag is flown at Belfast City Hall.
Belfast City Council's policy committee has recommended that the Union flag no longer fly over the City Hall.
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It would not alter the decision taken about flying the union flag on designated days at the city hall.
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She said that any decision to fly the union flag over the cenotaph outside Belfast City Hall would have to be considered as a separate issue by the council.
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The office of The Daily Californian used to be in Eshelman Hall, right next to the student union.
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