Also try the popular Labor-bar (Schiffbaustrasse 3), and one of the newest design creations, the Hive (Geroldstrasse 5), which retains the aura of Zurich's famous 'illegal' clubs (ad hoc bars that sprang up around the city without proper licences and are generally known by word of mouth).
The proposal has spurred widespread concern from lawyers on all sides of the labor relations bar, as well as federal employees whose jobs and salaries might be on the line.
While Canadian labor laws bar work stoppages while a labor contract is in effect, Basil Hargrove, the president of the Canadian union, said in an interview that he would not let that stop him from calling a strike, particularly if it looked as if Mr. Icahn were going to buy G.M. and sell any Canadian factories to help pay for the deal.
Federal labor law bars managers from retaliating against union supporters.
The labor contract bars subcontracting of major maintenance, the union said.
The agreement caps the number of guest construction workers admitted each year at 15,000, and in a bow to labor unions, bars admission for any higher-skilled workers like electricians, crane operators or elevator repair technicians.
A lawyer for the workers, Jane Chung, said that labor law bars restaurants from taking from workers' tips without an explicit exemption, and said that the judge's ruling effectively declares Indus Valley's practice illegal.
While the official did not elaborate, China's labor law bars minors between the ages of 16 and 18 from doing jobs "that require them to keep their heads down or to maintain unnatural postures".
In return, they promise labor peace (barring the occasional strike to demonstrate their power) and tremendous election-day muscle.
In the platform it ratified in Florida this summer, the GOP for the first time endorsed the idea of a national right-to-work law, which would weaken organized labor by barring contracts making union membership a condition of employment at companies.
