These slugfests are largely underwritten by well-heeled interest groups — including insurance companies, tobacco firms, the building and health care industries, unions and trial lawyers — that have seized upon judicial contests as a promising avenue for influence-peddling.
Members of a food industry union were in orange.
In 1999, according to records shown to officials of Unite, the garment industry union, Emsig lost $860,000.
Often backed by one industry, union or wealthy individual, California's ballot measures deal with controversial issues like immigration, marriage rights and health care.
Searching for potential clients, Lerach hit upon Amalgamated Bank, which is owned by UNITE, the garment-industry union, and has been playing an increasingly aggressive role in policing the conduct of companies in its portfolio.
Jim Stanford, an economist at Unifor, the Canadian car-industry union, points out how hard it is to compete with Mexican wages.Even as some of these obstacles have disappeared, Canada has not benefited proportionately.
[C8.] Garment Workers Lose U.S. Appeal A federal appeals court has refused to reinstate a class-action lawsuit filed in 1997 against a garment industry union by union members who worked at a now-defunct Brooklyn sweater factory.
Ron Kaminkow, an Amtrak engineer who also serves as secretary of the industry union consortium Railroad Workers United, said the board's conclusion underscored the need to put two engineers on trains.
"All shoots are off," said Dinesh Chaturvedi, the general secretary of the Federation of Western India Cine Employees, the Bollywood film industry union, according to Reuters, adding: "Payments have been delayed by three months, six months, a year.
A tourism industry union deplored the strike's impact on the Greek economy and stated, "It is equally unacceptable for the state not to understand that the loss from shutting the ancient sites is many times that of the demands".
[C2.] Korean Traders Plan Monday Strike Thirty-thousand members of South Korea's securities industry union are planning to strike during their lunch hour Monday, when the stock exchange plans to continue trading during what has historically been a midday break.
