According to the Railway Labor Act, which governs labor relations in the airline industry, employees must continue to work under their existing contract until a new one is ratified, or they are given permission to strike by the National Mediation Board.
In the past, all of the amendments to the Constitution, of which there are now 27, were proposed by Congress, and all but one were ratified by state legislatures.
We shall try and create two groups per structural segment (specialization via or not via MIR and rural or urban work setting) defined so as to ensure that results obtained in one are ratified in another ('saturation' of information).
It would have been a subtle, unconscious process: the ideas that were taken up by business schools, that led to nice speaking and consulting fees, tended to be the ones that ratified an existing trend, and thereby gave it legitimacy.
Artists of the current century can only dream of a museum that will one day ratify their ideals with such percipient flair.
Among Arab countries, only one – Jordan – has ratified the ICC treaty.
Although 30 countries, including the US and UK, have signed Acta, no one has yet ratified it.
It would indeed be satisfying to apply the constitution (under which, one may remember, ratified international treaties are part of the law of the land) to people who clearly treated it so scornfully.
The United States, Britain and New Zealand have refused to negotiate such treaties, and Australia has not ratified one that it signed with China in 2007, largely over concerns including the systemic use of torture to extract confessions, show trials and the imposition of the death penalty for noncapital crimes.
