A former slave, he instituted a harsh system of plantation labor, ordered a massacre of several thousand white Haitians and declared himself emperor.
Several union leaders said they might support changes that would call for holding secret-ballot elections within a week or two of the labor board ordering an election, thereby preventing long, acrimonious campaigns.
In office, Kennedy was something of a centrist iconoclast, quite capable of ripping big business, and of ripping labor, of ordering interventionist action and of shying away from it, of taking events with the Soviet Union to the brink of all-out conflict and of looking for future ways to avoid the abyss.
The labor board ordered Lincoln Center to post a notice acknowledging that it violated federal labor law.
A Brazilian labor judge ordered the suspension of construction work at the World Cup stadium in Curitiba because of concerns related to workers' safety.
The labor board ordered Horton to rescind the agreement or change it to make clear to employees that they were not waiving their right to pursue collective action.
Total, the European oil company, said on Tuesday that it would miss contracted deliveries of crude from Nigeria after a labor union ordered its members to stop work.
A labor court ordered Germany to pay a man indentured by the Nazis $78,000, but Germany rejected the ruling as contravening international law.
He argued five cases before the Supreme Court, winning an important 1981 case in which the court upheld the authority of the Secretary of Labor to order limits on cotton dust in textile factories to help prevent brown lung disease.
In panic, the then Labor government ordered a mammoth desalination plant – with a top capacity of half the city's water consumption – and a pipeline to bring water from the north of the state.
