Hayden's appointment represented the first time a United States sports organization has been subject to a remedy usually applied to labor unions accused of organized crime connections.
The strike pits several core components of the Democratic coalition against one another: The teachers' union and much of organized labor are on a war footing against Rahm Emanuel, Chicago's Democratic mayor and Mr. Obama's former chief of staff.
They do this by fretting in front of reporters over Mr. Bradley's advantages -- $1.6 million spent on television in Iowa (compared with $1.1 million for Mr. Gore), the perceived motivation of Mr. Bradley's upscale supporters to get to the caucuses, and the failure of the United Auto Workers union, the backbone of organized labor in Iowa, to work actively on Mr. Gore's behalf.
and a majority of the state's 430 hospitals approved a new "code of conduct" to make it easier for the union to organize thousands of workers.
Economists offered several explanations for the decline, including retirements by union members, layoffs of many unionized workers because of foreign competition and the failure of unions to organize enough additional members to offset such losses.
An effort by the Teamsters union to organize thousands of airport customer service, reservation and tour sales agents at America West Airlines failed narrowly yesterday, the labor group and the airline said.
He also headed the socialist-affiliated Unión General de Trabajadores (General Union of Workers), organized in 1888.
Mr. Straci was a lawyer for a Bronx Teamsters local with a pension fund before a trusteeship was imposed on the local as part of the court-ordered effort to rid the union of the influence of organized crime.
Later she said "to union members and friends of organized labor in Wisconsin, help is on the way," and Clinton will soon unveil a $20 billion proposal to bolster jobs in manufacturing.
But nonpublic workers who must struggle with the vagaries of private employment have seen more than enough examples of government employee unions, the last stronghold of organized labor, exercising their power to ensure what appears to be outsized compensation for their members.
