Sentence examples for founded a union from inspiring English sources

After Mexico's revolution he founded a union and may also have plotted to kill the president.

In the 1960s the civil-rights movement swept the United States, and the Latino equivalent of Martin Luther King was César Chávez, who founded a union for farm workers and mobilised America's Chicanos (American-born Mexicans).

At a news conference in Tokyo on Thursday, the finance professional said he and a group of former Goldman Sachs employees had founded a union to demand their jobs back in what lawyers said was a rare instance of organized labor in finance's highest echelons.

Paolo Marotta, 39, who co-founded a union of younger doctors to lobby against the medical establishment, said it took him 12 years to find a job in the Italian public health system -- even though he is in a boom industry -- gerontology.

1944 - Felix Houphouet-Boigny, who later to become Ivory Coast's first president, founds a union of African farmers, which develops into the inter-territorial African Democratic Rally and its Ivorian section, the Ivory Coast Democratic Party.

After Mr. Stern ousted him and other leaders, accusing them of financial misconduct and defying the parent union, they founded a rival union.

Her mother wrote about women's health and founded a freelance writers' union.

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.

The church was founded in a log meeting house around 1789 and is one of the oldest Reformed churches in North Carolina, having been originally founded as a "union effort of persons of Reformed and Lutheran faith". The church's website still listed Lee as its pastor as of early Tuesday.

It is not discriminatory, merely a recognition that marriage is an institution that is founded on a union that embraces sexual difference.

The hospital workers' union, 1199/S.E.I.U., was founded as a union for pharmacists, but now New York's pharmacists are attacking the union over a cost-saving program in which workers obtain mail-order prescriptions from a nonunion company in Texas.