Mother Jones believed that unions represented the best hope for coal miners and other workers to improve their lives.

VOA: special.2009.03.16

I think maybe the same movement that created the Yale Cooperative Society in the late nineteenth century also spurred credit unions.

我想大概在19世纪晚期,推动形成了"耶鲁互助会"的那场运动,同时也催生了信用合作社

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The credit unions are even smaller, $748 billion -so it's less than $1 trillion in credit unions.

信用合作社就更小了,7480亿美元,还不到1万亿美元

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Since the nineteen forties, the traditional place for political speech by American unions and companies has been through political action committees.

VOA: special.2010.03.12

If you look at number of organizations that do this business, it comes completely reversed and it's credit unions that are the most important.

从这些金融机构的数量上来看,排行完全相反,信用合作社就成了最重要的

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Wisconsin's newly elected governor, Scott Walker, says limits are needed on labor unions to help cut a deficit in the state budget.

VOA: special.2011.02.25

Credit unions are -I think they came out of kind of the cooperative movement.

信用合作社,我想它大概是源自互助合作运动

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But another law, the Wagner Labor Relations Act of Nineteen Thirty-Five, helped labor unions to increase their power.

VOA: special.2011.03.31

You may have a false impression of the importance of credit unions.

对于信用合作社的重要性,你们可能会有错误的印象

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The ruling clears the way for corporations and unions to use their own money to support the election or defeat of a candidate.

VOA: special.2010.03.12

It's like a Savings and Loan Association except that credit unions are created by some entity, some club or group, and they're not open to the whole public.

这有点像储贷协会,不同点在于,信用合作社是由某个独立群体所创建的,比如社团或集体组织,它不面向整个社会公众

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Woody Guthrie was a voice for labor unions and striking workers and families beaten down by the Great Depression in the nineteen thirties.

VOA: special.2009.07.27

I don't have the latest data -this is from 1998 -but there were 11,000 credit unions -that's the number of credit unions in the United States in 1998 -and there were only 9,000 commercial banks; that's the number of banks.

我手上没有最新的数据,这个是1998年的,共有11000个信用合作社,这是1998年全美信用合作社的数量,与此同时,商业银行只有9000家,这是银行的数量

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This can be true even when the music has nothing to do with unions.

VOA: special.2009.09.07

Women,labor unions,religious groups, political groups,scientists and environmental organizations would also support the event.

VOA: special.2010.04.21

Workers said their unions could not negotiate with the new industrial giants.

VOA: special.2010.06.03

But leaders of the nation's largest teachers unions criticized the administration's "blueprint."

VOA: special.2010.03.18

Labor unions are a traditional base of support for the Democratic Party.

VOA: special.2011.02.25

He began helping labor organizers establish unions to help the workers.

VOA: special.2010.06.13

Mother Jones led protests to further the cause of unions.

VOA: special.2009.03.16

The official Communist Party-controlled All-China Federation of Trade Unions has sent in officials to mediate in many of the strikes.

VOA: standard.2010.06.24

Some police,Coast Guard members and firefighters joined labor unions on the streets demanding "real jobs and higher pay."

VOA: standard.2010.03.11

"As you can say for this demonstration I think they should focus more - I mean truly focus - on what the working class or the labor unions really need."

VOA: standard.2009.03.09

The main opposition coalition of political parties, civil society groups, and trade unions organized the strike to remember those killed, beaten,and raped by members of Guinea's military on September 28.

VOA: standard.2009.10.28

Leaders of the South Africa's opposition political parties, labor unions and health-care professions praised President Zuma for launching an ambitious program to test 15 million South Africans for the HIV/AIDS virus by June of next year.

VOA: standard.2010.04.26