Numerous studies estimate PLAs increase project costs in the range of 10 to 20 percent, which means Patrick's deal with
organized labor is costing taxpayers between $130 million and $260 million extra.
An industry where non-union workers toil alongside
organized labor and fewer union workers do more of the work once seemed unthinkable in the city.
From Poland to Brazil to post-apartheid South Africa,
organized labor has played a critical role in helping new democracies emerge and stabilize.
Therefore, one can reach the logical conclusion that much of what students know about
organized labor comes from mass media sources.
In order for
organized labor to play its critical role as a countervailing power within the American political system, there must be intensified organizing, internal democratization, increased electoral and lobbying clout, and social-movement unions willing to mobilize with others and, if necessary, on the streets.
But their lives and issues are usually ignored both by
organized labor and by our own political organizations.
This issue is the brainchild of a committee with an unusual membership: six librarians and six representatives of
organized labor.
What happened to
organized labor in the 20th century?
Editorial includes information for every legislative area covered by BNA, including: agriculture, bankruptcy, biotechnology, campaign finance, telecommunications, energy, environment, financial institutions, futures trading, government contracts, health care, intellectual property, international trade, Internet law,
organized labor, securities, and transportation.
Niblo explains how this highjacking of the Mexican Revolution was politically possible, given the apparent strength of
organized labor and the Cardenista left without the ruling party.
Clinton was vastly prolific in his last three months, adding some 26,000 pages worth of dictates that ranged from creating new federal monuments, regulating the temperature at which eggs must be kept during shipping, and prohibiting companies that get on the wrong side of
organized labor from contracting with the federal government.
The author states clearly in the final chapter that foundations and organized labour have the potential to be far more powerful when united than when working alone, "The most potent response in gaining public regard might be a common effort by
organized labor and philanthropic foundations .
