Over the past four years union membership has fallen by 400, 000, to its lowest level since the 1940s.
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Patricia Wood, a 60-year-old homemaker, still hasn't moved back into her residence of 34 years in Union Beach that she shares with her husband, a driver for a phone company.
They also came two years before the union and GM are actually scheduled to renegotiate their contract.
Moreover, it was locked in for the next five years, rather than the three years that the union had wanted.
After considering charging undergraduate tuition for the first time in more than 100 years, Cooper Union will instead confront a budget crisis by charging students in an expanded graduate program and adding a raft of other revenue-producing courses, the school announced Tuesday.
He inherited a lumbering giant plagued by overcapacity, sloppy service and an unwieldy acquisition--six years earlier, Union Pacific had finally succeeded in buying rival Southern Pacific, a deal the company had originally completed in 1901, only to see it reversed by a monopoly-fearing Supreme Court in 1913.
Just inside them are the town barracks, built to defend the town in 1717, 10 years after the Act of Union which formally ended Scots independence - but crucially just two years after the Jacobite Rising of 1715.
For many of those years he and the union were manhandled by the owners.
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Russia last saw this level of civic engagement in the late glasnost years of the Soviet Union.
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Ten years ago, my union organized the Immigrant Workers Freedom Ride as part of a national campaign for comprehensive reform.
Two years later the Soviet Union had splintered and the map of central and eastern Europe had been completely redrawn.
Labor groups have tried for years to form a union, filing dozens of complaints with the National Labor Relations Board.
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Below are the states expected to add employees the fastest and slowest over the next five years along with their union presence.
The airline has been trying to negotiate new agreements with its union for years now, but the contract negotiations have stalled badly.
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The island joined the EU in 2004 and the monetary union four years later, but only the south enjoys the benefits of membership.
In April, almost 20 years after the Soviet Union disintegrated, Russia agreed to demarcate its land (though not its sea) border with Ukraine.
In future, the argument runs, mutual suspicion will co-exist with Russia's westward energy sales, just as in the last years of the Soviet Union.
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In past years, the European Union has urged Germany to impose speed limits where there are none, arguing that this would improve safety and reduce carbon emissions.
With many industries shut since Kazakhstan won its independence from the ex-Soviet Union eight years ago, local people dread the destruction of their vital fishing industry.
Poland fondly recalls the two countries' union 440 years ago.
During McDermott's last eight years, he was the union delegate for the Patrolman's Benevolent Association.
Twenty-five years ago, the Soviet Union and United States each had about 25, 000 nuclear weapons.
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The answer is the 26 million immigrants who have arrived in the European Union in recent years.
He had been involved with the farmer's union for many years, before becoming deputy president in 1992.
Within a few years, however, the union may carry the same quaint resonance as horse and carriage.
They had to stop a few years ago when the Soviet Union collapsed.
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"We all worked very hard, achieved landmark improvements and protected our members and our union for many years, " said ILA President Harold J.
Eight years ago, the European Union established what seemed like far-reaching consumer protections, requiring that airlines compensate passengers for long delays and cancellations.
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In the past couple of years, the carpenters' union has hired the homeless to picket in Washington and other cities, according to news reports.
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