Search Results for County and Municipal Employees

...Joseph E. Hower Abstract Drawing on union convention proceedings, reports, newspapers, speeches, and internal memoranda, this article uses the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees (AFSCME) as a case study to explore organized labor’s response to the HIV/AIDS crisis. One...

... broadcast workers. In 1979 an urgent report to the municipal government stated that broadcasters in Chongming County had directly petitioned ( shangfang ) the Shanghai Broadcasting Bureau. This was in large part a historical problem: in a 1963 directive, the Central Broadcasting Bureau made no mention...

...- pany employees made only ten dollars per week if they worked a full week. Most were working part time.4 The Workers Club Reflecting on ensuing events, Legassie later commented, "Labor will not fight until its back is down on the floor." In April, 1932, Berlin labor was down...

..., as it is known locally, ranks as some of the most productive agri- cultural land in the world; two Valley counties rank first and second in national agri- cultural production. Across the decades, the exploitation of generations of impover- ished and largely immigrant labor fueled profit maximization...

... of migration. See Mae Ngai, Impossible Subjects: Illegal Aliens and the Making of Modern America (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2004). 2. Chapter 12 of the city’s municipal code states that “no department, agency, commission, officer or employee of the City and County of San Francisco...

... Federation of State, County, and Municipal Employees, the Service Employees International Union, the Communications Workers of America, the National Education Association, and the United Food 2lO/RADICAL HISTORY REVIEW and Commercial Workers-all receive very short shrift. In addition...

... 1986, and during that time, $85 billion in federal revenues was distributed to states and municipalities. It is in this context that gay liberal institutions used service provision as a tactic to incorporate themselves into the political milieu of city and county politics. The GRS program and Bradley’s...

... a local ordinance requiring all employers to provide domestic partner benefits for frontline employees and their lovers. The move came as airline management intensified efforts to lower costs by extracting wage and benefit concessions from all unionized employees. This article traces an alliance among...

... to the open immigration policy. In “A Statistical Study of Sickness among the Mexicans in the Los Angeles County Hospital,” she presented results of a study of Mexican TB rates and argued that Mexicans were a drain on municipal governments’ budgets.33 An important aim of the report’s attention...

... with limited resources, despite being the second largest city in the northern province of Ulster. The premier city of Belfast, how- ever, had a workshop for the blind as early as 1871, which began with a handful of employees and had, by the early twentieth century, over a hundred, though it was plagued...

.... The Bhopal story is partly about corporate impunity and official complicity, as manifested in many legal twists and turns since 1984. Responsibility for what hap- pened cannot be relegated to malfunctioning equipment or lowly employees at the plant. Yet thus far Union Carbide and its corporate officers have...

... of Northern roadhouse: dives located outside the city limits, hence beyond the reach of the metropolitan police.”88 Unincorporated Dade County offered more loosely defined zoning regulations and no municipally mandated taxes and license fees, as well as one less law enforcement jurisdiction...

... broad a following behind so militant a party. Moreover the Henry George campaign was only the most dramatic instance of a wider political insurgency that swept the United States in 1886. With labor tickets running in 189 municipal- ities and all but four of the thirty-eight states, both polity...

... of Durham confexred a sense of privilege on him, and he clearly was a clever young man, but his subsequent career was not distinguished. He fled to Texas soon after the trial and opened a tavern in the old mission town of Nacogdoches. For more than a decade he was elected the county clerk...

... that were illegal or heavily regulated on the Missouri side of the Mississippi River. East St. Louis’s municipal government was often a puppet of powerful corporate interests who wished to pol- lute and to control labor. Although East St. Louis was not a true company town, it nonetheless allowed...

..., steamfitters, and municipal employees started independent consumers’ cooperatives; Scandinavian workers formed a cooperative bakery, restaurant, and reading room that employed 25 people; 1,000 joined the To-operative Campers’’ ”to make our mountains accessible at low cost.” Barbers, auto...

... marriage licenses in accordance with the court’s interpretation of the state constitution. As conservative groups mobilized to put a referendum on the 2006 ballot that would restrict marriage to male-female unions, municipalities in Massachusetts celebrated...

... into his mouth.” Davis and Billings were escorted to the city jail and booked. So were nine other pairs of men during eight days of arrests at the library. On 15 September solicitor general Paul Webb, a former Methodist preacher turned attorney, presented evidence to the Fulton County Grand Jury...

.... The organization tirelessly publicized vivid exposés on the abuses, squalor, and dilapidation of county poorhouses for the “indigent elderly” and drafted model state-level bills for pensions to replace them. In recent years, the organization’s influence had grown significantly with the onset of the Depression...

... Depression and an influx of im- migrants from the English countryside and the Continent, vastly in- flated the number of men who sought work in the port of London. The result was a general speed up, and a reduction in wages for all but a small minority of permanent employees. ”There was a time...