Tavistock's offices and town-center building are the first in Florida to win the certification, which has been awarded to about 250 projects worldwide during the last three years.
The attorneys who won the preliminary injunction halting certification of this county's vote, which had been scheduled around 5 p.m. yesterday, say they did not coordinate with either the political parties or the presidential campaigns.
Now, the Alaskan salmon industry appear to have won the fight, recently saying that it was standing firm in its decision to drop the outside certification group.
Something much more hopeful also happened in December 2008 -- the start of contract talks between UC and PRO/UAW, the union that had won certification the preceding month to represent the more than 5000 postdocs on UC's 10 campuses.
Using ten years of data from the National Labor Relations Board and the National Mediation Board and a difference-in-difference estimator, the author estimates the effect of Change to Win policies on whether a union won its certification election and the number and percentage of workers successfully organized.
The 12,000-square-foot shop was spotless, and the company had won industry certifications for the quality of its products.
In addition, more than 1,000 companies have won certification from the non-profit B Lab as "B Corps" -- this doesn't require a special incorporation or even a change-the-world mission, but it does require the company to meet high environmental, labor and other standards.
C2C has mainly been a business-to-business endeavor, and only a few of the 100 products that have won MBDC certification — Herman Miller chairs, United States Postal Service envelopes — are familiar to consumers.
The issues in the case are considered largely moot, because Mr. Bush won both the original certification of the state's vote and the one extended by the Florida Supreme Court, although by a lesser margin.
