Randolph, who founded a groundbreaking labor union for the predominantly black sector of train porters, wanted Roosevelt to open up World War II-related federal contracting jobs to African-Americans.
In the Portland, Oregon, area, dozens of fast-food workers earned groundbreaking union recognition this spring at two Burgerville stores, part of a larger campaign to organize all of the chain's 1,500 employees.
In May, Manhattan Guitar Center employee Anim Arnold told Labor Press that management was targeting individual workers as they were gearing up for the groundbreaking union vote.
In a groundbreaking labor agreement, the union allowed G.M. to pay 40 percent of its union workers at Orion Township an "entry-level" wage that sharply reduces overall production costs.
On Monday, Pascack Valley Hospital and Englewood Hospital and Medical Center were the first hospitals in New Jersey to agree to develop safe staffing standards through a groundbreaking contract with their union, Health Professionals and Allied Employees.
When the Vermont Senate passed a groundbreaking bill that authorizes civil unions for gay couples, many members knew that the vote could cost them their jobs.
Ms. Anderson, 43, used some of that money to establish merit-based pay in a teachers' contract that was hailed even by national unions as a groundbreaking compromise.
New York attracted the national spotlight when the city and the union agreed on a groundbreaking plan to reward teachers who improve student achievement in the neediest schools.
When I served as superintendent, we worked collaboratively with the union to institute a groundbreaking compensation system, ProComp.
In 2011, he negotiated a groundbreaking package of reforms with Democrats and their union allies.
When Sir Kensington returned to England, he authored what Norton and Ramadan call a "groundbreaking" doctoral thesis at Cambridge University titled: A Most Seemly Union: Byzantine Gastronomy & the Delightful Marriage of Greek and Roman Influence, 330-453.
