Word: union
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...many environmentalists, the most important issue of all is the apparent onset of global warming. To alert the public--and urge reduction of greenhouse-gas emissions--the National Environmental Trust and the Union of Concerned Scientists have raised $11 million to launch history's largest eco-ad campaign...
...Teamsters are about to file a civil suit under the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act--a law often used in the past by the government to combat Mob influence in labor. One target of the suit: Teamster ex-president RON CAREY, ejected from the union in 1997 after a finding that his 1996 run for the top job was tainted by campaign-finance abuses...
...trying to show that Carey's bid was a "corrupt enterprise," the suit will seek to recover some $3 million in union funds spent as a result of the election. Trumka is alleged to have steered AFL-CIO funds to the Carey campaign; he took the Fifth when called before a congressional investigation into the scandal. Federal prosecutors have alleged the D.N.C. was also funneling money to Carey...
...prot?g?s to the same 36-hour shifts they endured in years past. In one city, at least, this brutal, long-standing tradition could be on its last legs. On Tuesday, residents and interns at the Boston Medical Center voted 177 to 1 to be represented by a federally protected union. And while these interns and residents were already considered union members by the hospital, they were not protected by federal labor law - largely because the National Labor Relations Board had maintained for 23 years that as students, the doctors-in-training weren't eligible to participate in bargaining talks...
...residents' union can give interns a stronger voice to negotiate more humane work schedules and can force hospitals to the bargaining table," wrote TIME contributor Dr. Ian Smith about the board decision last month. Now that process appears to have started - and for America's patients, better-rested, less-harried residents could be just what the doctor ordered...