Villaraigosa's union experience was valuable preparation for his political career, his lifelong friend Jesús Quiñonez pointed out, "because as a labor organizer you have to know how to build coalitions and organize a majority".
Mr. Sloan-El said he was trying to organize a majority of the seven-member council to force the mayor to step down so the state would leave administrative power in the hands of the council and the city's business manager, Preston Taylor, who would serve as acting mayor until a new one was elected.
A few days after taking office in January 1967, he imposed sharp cuts on the system's budget and organized a majority of the regents to oust Mr. Kerr.
Despite the citizens of Sunset Beach's efforts — organizing a majority opinion in favor of incorporation, raising more than $100,000 toward this goal and entrenching themselves in the arduous process to do so — the council has not ruled out the possibility of annexing (taking over and governing) Sunset.
Since 2003, Illinois labor law has allowed public sector workers in municipal, county, state, and educational institutions to organize a union via a majority sign-up certification process (PDF).
As Linda Greenhouse and Reva B. Siegel write in their book, "Before Roe v. Wade," the pair approached the Rev. Jerry Falwell with the idea of organizing a socially conservative "Moral Majority," with abortion as the central issue.
The Chicago Tribune organized an interview with a majority of The Office cast members who in character explained the rules to the various games.
In this study, we sought to organize the majority of the 32,746 T. cruzi contigs into chromosomes-size assemblies using a combination of scaffolds, synteny maps, and end sequences from T. cruzi BAC libraries.
The platform opposes the right of unions in the private sector to organize through majority sign-up, even though that has been the law of the land since the 1930s.
Since Lt. Gov. Bill Bolling is a Republican, the chamber will organize under a Republican majority.
Back in 2007, the then Senator Obama co-sponsored a so-called "card check" bill, which would have allowed unions to organize simply by getting a majority of workers in a certain locale to sign a petition saying they want to join.
