Unions Sentence Examples

In the various colonial Methodist unions the Bible Christians have contributed a total of 159 ministers, 14,925 members and 660 chapels.

As early as1652-1654there is evidence of some slight organization for dealing with marriages, poor relief, " disorderly walkers," matters of arbitration, &c. The Quarterly or " General " meetings of the different counties seem to have been the first unions of separate congregations.

Physico-chemical properties have also been drawn upon to decide whether double unions are present in the benzene complex; but here the predilections of the observers apparently influence the nature of the conclusions to be drawn from such data.

These unions for the most part aimed, not at incorporating the two churches in doctrine and in worship, but at bringing churches or congregations professing different confessions under one government and discipline.

Columella regarded the gains from the births as a sufficient motive for encouraging these unions, and thought that mothers should be rewarded for their fecundity; Varro, too, seems to have taken this view.

When these various unions of dealers and of craftsmen embraced all the trades and branches of production in the town, little or no vitality remained in the old gild merchant; it ceased to have an independent sphere of activity.

Patents, designs and trade marks are now dealt with by the patent office under the charge of a controller-general (salary £1800), which is subordinate to the railway department, and copyright, art unions and industrial exhibitions are also among the matters dealt with by the department.

Experiment showed that legitimate unions yield a larger quantity of seed than illegitimate.

The council, however, desirous of negotiating unions with the minor churches of the East, remained in session for several years, and seems never to have reached a formal adjournment.

History shows that states forming unions of the second class are certain in after time to deny or assert that the sovereignty of the state is one of the rights reserved, according as the state belongs to a stronger or weaker section or faction; state sovereignty being the defence of the weaker state or faction, and being denied by the stronger group of states which controls the government and which asserts that a new sovereign state was created by a union of the former independent ones.

The Labour unions were able to secure in these years many concessions both as to hours and wages.

The capitularies of 805 and 821 also contain vague references to sworn unions of some sort, and a capitulary of 884 prohibits villeins from forming associations "vulgarly called gilds" against those who have despoiled them.

In federal unions, such as Mexico and Brazil where a central authority existed first and created the states, the belief in state rights is much weaker than it is in unions composed of originally independent states.

The divergences in ritual and organization, the principle underlying all the various ecclesiastical unions, viz.

At the same time he was prominent in the movement for the formation of labour unions, and at the congress of working men at Nantes in 1894 he secured the adoption of the labour union idea against the adherents of Jules Guesde.

Attempts have been made to find in them the progenitors of the trades unions, but there seems to be no immediate connexion between the latter and the craft gilds.

Outcasts alone, the offspring of irregular unions, could be ignorant of the blood which ran in their veins, of the unseen ancestors to be fed and tended in family and gentile rites.'

He feared also whether we can explain the mystery of the Incarnation, and other things, unless real bonds or unions are added to monads and phenomena.

Clubs were openly organized, pamphlets and journals appeared, regardless of administrative orders; workmens unions multiplied in Paris, Bordeaux and Lyons, in face of drastic pro hibition; and anarchy finally set in with the defection of the army in Paris on the 23rd of June, at Nancy, at Metz and at Brest.

Such unions as hers with James Hamilton were long not uncommon in the West Indies.

This district may of itself constitute a poor law union; but in the great majority of cases the unions, or areas under the jurisdiction of boards of guardians according to the Poor-Law Amendment Act of 1834, are made up of aggregated poor-law parishes.

Groener was instrumental in maintaining, in spite of strikes and other difficulties, the cooperation of the German trade unions in securing a steady supply of munitions.

First, the balance of power in wage bargaining has shifted as union coverage has declined and the unions have become far less adversarial.

It is a joint industry, unions and government advisory body.

Election website launched by unions Trade unions affiliated to the Labor party have opened a website in anticipation of a General Election in May.

To deal with this, unions usually negotiate an agreement to protect the pay of any losers for a period of time.

The creaking world economy was started up again by a coalition of industrial capitalists and government, with the trade unions as junior partner.

Many unions have suffered from years of bureaucratisation by right wing careerists and New Labor sycophants.

Daewoo Declared Bankrupt Creditors of Daewoo declared south Korea's third biggest carmaker bankrupt last Wednesday after unions rejected a restructuring plan calling for layoffs.

Above all, the Thatcher reforms reversed economic centralism, by curbing the power of national unions and through privatization.

However, in a period of acute class struggle, the bureaucracy of the trade unions inevitably plays a treacherous role.

The unions in response confirm how they will seek to exercise the newly restored right of free collective bargaining.

The company insists it has " normal relations " with 12 unions in Colombia, including collective bargaining covering wages and working conditions.

We must spread communism in the parliaments, in the trades unions and in the Party organizations.

Pressure from the unions had won a concession saying that a third of the money being put in would go toward that.

The UK Spending Review 2004 announcements rightly drew condemnation from the civil service unions.

The eight-hour stoppage, called by the metalworking unions from all three Italian union confederations -. .

Will the children of such unions be enriched by the dual heritage that they have, or be hopelessly confused?

Only two unions disagreed, with one of them even suggesting a triennial congress.

This was how the utterly corrupt bureaucracy of the British trade unions received its training.

This tribe may legally marry within the totem, but always avoids such unions.

That strike had been liberally helped by the Australian unions, and it was confidently predicted that, as the Australian workers were more effectively organized than the English unions, a corresponding success would result from their course of action.

The Italian Federation of Agrarian Unions has greatly contributed to agricultural progress.

Although in some industrial centres the working-class movement has assumed an importance equal to that of other countries, there is no general working-class organization comparable to the English trade unions.

The last named was opened in 1904, and is controlled by the Winona Lake corporation, having official connexion with several national trade unions.

Trade unions, so far from disappearing, were legalized, gathered strength from the changes in industrial organization, and nowhere became so powerful as in the most progressive industries; while other forms of combination appeared, incomparably stronger, for good or evil, than those of earlier times.

In this scheme birds are arranged according to what the author considered to be their natural method and sequence; but the result exhibits some unions as ill-assorted as can well be met with in the whole range of tentative arrangements of the class, together with some very unjustifiable divorces.

The heat of combustion, as first determined by Julius Thomsen, agreed rather better with the presence of nine single unions.

Including all unions the total is below the European proportion, but above that of Porto Rico or Jamaica in 1899.

The change was emphasized by the active intervention in politics of the trade unions.

It includes also permanent alliances or organic unions.

The excitement and opposition in Germany to the Prussian tariff led to customs legislation by the other German states, some smaller states joining Prussia, while the southern states endeavoured to form independent customs unions.

Though the direct results of these unions were the restoration of prestige to the absolutist papacy and the bringing of Byzantine men of letters, like Bessarion, to the West, the outcome was on the whole disappointing.

In most cases such conventions have created international unions of states for all matters which lend themselves to international co-operation.

Berne, being the capital of the most central of the neutral European states, is the administrative centre of most of these unions.

It is not to be doubted that such religious confederations were favourable to the existence of political unions.

Learned Societies.T here are numerous societies and unions, some of an exclusively scientific character and others designed for the popular diffusion of useful knowledge.

Finally, on the 22nd of March 1833, the northern and southern unions were amalgamated; Saxony and the Thuringian states attached themselves to this union in the same year; and on the 1st of January 1834 the German Customs- and Commercial-Union (Deutscher Zoll- und Handelsverein) came into existence, which included for tariff purposes within a single frontier the greater part of Germany.

In nearly every state there still existed, as survivals of the old days, laws forbidding the union of different political associations with one another, and all unions or associations of working men which followed political, socialistic or communispic ends.

It was possible under these to procure decisions in courts of justice dissolving the General Union of Workers and the coalitions and unions of working men.

The whole organization of newspapers, societies and trades unions was at once broken up. Almost every political newspaper supported by the party was suppressed; almost all the pamphlets and books issued by them were forbidden; they were thereby at once deprived of the only legitimate means which they had for spreading their opinions.

Or, again, individuals of certain character may be able to pair, but the fertility of their union may not be the same as that of unions between individuals with other characters.

The pilgrims' formed themselves into unions, elected a "master" and concluded their agreements, as to the outward voyage and return, in common.

At an early date he associated himself with the development of the policy of unions among the railway servants.

Another matter of vast importance in which he was deeply involved, was the organization of the so-called " Triple Alliance " between the unions representing coal-miners, transport workers, and railwaymen.

Labour unions became strong and demonstrative.

With reference to their objects, treaties may perhaps be conveniently classified as (r) political, including treaties of peace, of alliance, of cession, of boundary, for creation of international servitudes, of neutralization, of guarantee, for the submission of a controversy to arbitration; (2) commercial, including consular and fishery conventions, and slave trade and navigation treaties; (3) confederations for special social objects, such as the Zollverein, the Latin monetary union, and the still wider unions with reference to posts, telegraphs, submarine cables and weights and measures; (4) relating to criminal justice, e.g.

French is, however, exclusively used in the treaties constituting the great " international unions "; and bilingual treaties are sometimes accompanied by a third version in French, to be decisive in case of alleged variances between the other two.

Again the Amphictyonic unions had one of the x.

But these unions, at all events in historic times, were mainly concerned with religion, and the authority of the councils did not seriously affect the autonomy of the individual states.

There are, however, examples in Greece proper, and one, Lycia in Asia Minor, of real federal unions.

Indeed, the paucity of women of the Aryan stock would probably render these mixed unions almost a necessity from the very outset; and the vaunted purity of blood which the caste rules were calculated to perpetuate can scarcely have remained of more than a relative degree even in the case of the Brahman caste.

He was also one of the principal founders of reformatory and refuge unions, young men's Christian associations and working men's institutes.

As a boy he had been married and divorced twice - but these were merely nominal unions.

All the British states and territories are members of postal, telegraphic and customs unions.

They were therefore not merely trade unions in the current meaning of that phrase, but xvi.

Wages for men employed in building, owing in part to scarcity of labour but chiefly to action of the labour unions, rose enormously, masons being paid $12 a day for a day of 8 hours.

Besides his wife, Ingoberga, he had unions with Merofleda, a wool-carder's daughter, and Theodogilda, the daughter of a neatherd.

There seems to have been at times a pardonable confusion between some quasilegitimate unions and those marriages by mere word of mouth, without ecclesiastical or other ceremonies, which the church, after some natural hesitation, pronounced to be valid.

Poor-law unions are groups of parishes for the local administration of the Poor Laws.

Within the unions the local poor-law authorities are the Board of Guardians.

Registration districts are generally, but not invariably, coextensive with unions of the same name.

Reform began with the Poor Law Amendment Act of 1834, grouping the parishes into Unions, making the boards of guardians mainly elective, and creating a central poor law board in London.

When a contribution is required from county rate, the county council assess the amount payable by each parish according to the basis previously made, and send their precept to the guardians of the unions comprising the several parishes in the county, the guardians in their turn requiring the overseers of each parish to provide the necessary quota of that parish out of the poor rate, and the sum thus raised goes into the county fund.

A larger charge is made for lunatics received from unions outside the county, as these do not, of course, contribute anything towards the provision or up-keep of the asylum itself.

He tells us himself that at fifteen his mind was set on learning; and at nineteen, according to the ancient and modern practice in China in regard to early unions, he was married, - his wife being from his ancestral state of Sung.

They notice the selfdenying affection of the mothers, and the hard treatment of the wives by the husbands, polygamy and the shifting marriage unions.

If, on the other hand, "infection of the germ" is impossible, telegony will not count as a factor in variation, and breeders will no longer be either justified in regarding mares and other female animals as liable to be "corrupted" by ill-assorted unions, or benefited by first having offspring to a high-class, or it may be more vigorous, mate.

His policy of customs and railway unions between the various states, added to the personal esteem in which he was at this time held by many of the Dutchmen, enabled him to undertake and to carry on successfully the business of government.

But such unions were followed again and again by decentralization and disruption.

Expelled from Prussia in 1865, he settled at Leipzig, and it is primarily to his activity in Saxony among the newly-formed unions of workers that the modern social democrat party owes its origin.

Some of the figures seem quite dated (for example on women in unions ).

It did not require the states to provide civil unions, much less marriage, leaving these issues to democratic deliberation.

Some unions have a policy against carrying forced deportees.

Trade unions at the Earth Summit You may think sustainable development has very little to do with trade unions.

Public opinion, however, generally disapproved of polygynous unions.

Workers are actively discouraged from joining independent trade unions.

Trade Unions in Australia sent over £ 30,000 to help the dockers to continue the struggle.

Barbara Castle and Jim Callaghan handled the 1968 Donovan Report so disastrously, and the government became embattled with the trade unions.

Unions seek urgent Granada talks ITV Unions are seeking urgent talks with Granada on a proposed wage freeze.

More time was devoted to the descriptions of the posh frocks than was given to the unions to explain their case against these cuts.

Workhouses were built by the Poor Law Unions, committees of mainly local grandees and clergy and paid for by local; taxation.

The Club will make every effort to be flexible with staff and to promote harmonious working relations, through trade unions and other organizations.

The unions were deeply implicated in helping create a climate in which men's needs were seen to be paramount.

Trotsky emphasized the importance of the British trade unions.

Some tried to organize trade unions that were easily infiltrated by the police.

The kind of federal unions have a federal worker vise president Jim farley.

There are free trade unions, an independent judiciary, no silly wearing of uniforms by the party leadership.

F ree marriage There were also marital unions that did not require the women to pass into her husband's ownership.

The unions became increasingly sectarian, increasingly materialist, until they deserved as well as received their defeat at the hands of Margaret Thatcher.

Workers have new rights to trade unions, a month's holiday, six months ' paid maternity, two weeks ' paternity.

Getting motions passed at general meetings forces Student Unions to campaign against privatization.

Under the law, the AFL-CIO can only mobilize voters who are in member unions.

It can be an acceptable alternative to redundancy for employees and trade unions and thus have a less detrimental effect on workforce morale.

Larry Stammer of the Los Angeles Times reports that Bishop Jon Bruno has said he will observe a personal moratorium on blessing same-sex unions.

New Deal 32 unions that responded, some 18 (or 56 percent) had secured new recognition deals in the last six months.

Historians with left-of-centre outlooks preferred to research early trade unions or religious nonconformity.

Their peoples are tired of corrupt ' Unions ' and corrupt oligarchs, whatever their foreign ideology may be called.

Many Universities and student unions now have one-stop ' job shops ' which advertize jobs specifically for students.

Unions win the lion's share of personal injury compensation payouts.

Trades unions today also take up a wide range of issues which are highly political.

Return to top of page poorhouses, Poor Law, etc Details of Poor Law Unions in Warwickshire, from Rossbret.

Where once the trades unions could protect their members, now they are largely powerless.

Summary on the Fertility of the two Legitimate Unions, compared with that of the two Illegitimate Unions, in the genus primula.

Little wonder that unions reacted with an immediate and stern rebuke in a letter from the office of Brendan Barber.

The national rollout of NUS Extra follows a pilot scheme carried out in 13 unions in the North West during 2005/06.

The task posed, therefore, is the building of a mass WRP with deep roots in the unions.

His opponent, Sen. John Kerry, does not support same-sex marriage, but he opposes the constitutional amendment and supports same-sex civil unions.

First, he claims public sector unions have left scars on his back by opposing his reforms.

The unions showed what they were really about, doing sod all work.

Trade unions need to support the use of renewable energy sources.

Talks between managers and trade unions aimed at preventing an all-out stoppage at the plant are to continue on Monday.

A planned 48-hour stoppage at the BBC has been called off while unions consult members on a new peace offer.

Unions ' uphill struggle This evidence confirms the uphill struggle which unions face in Britain today.

The card also benefits local student unions by feeding money directly back to them.

It has one of the biggest student unions in the UK and is regarded by many students as one of the best.

For too long the trade unions have bowed down before the tough talk of free market Tories and New Labor.

Gordon Brown started talking tough this week about standing up to the unions over pensions.

This is an important lesson to every worker - make sure the company you are employed by recognizes trade unions.

Everyone has the right to form and to join trade unions for the protection of his interests.

Particularly those initiatives which involve trade unions, their health and safety representatives and workers.

The Wales TUC represents 56 trade unions who in turn represent around half a million members across Wales.

Ford employees were reached through LaunchPad's partnership with EDAP, the Employe Development assistance Program run by the trade unions and management.

Discussions with the relevant trade unions are ongoing to bring this work to a conclusion.

The transition to the new arrangement is being overseen by a Steering Committee with representatives of all the campus trade unions.

The bureaucracy is practically unassailable in the old unions.

We work closely with the National union of Students and the lecturers ' unions as well as other bodies relevant to postgraduate education.

The affiliated unions have a central role to play in this effort.

The trades unions say I can't use my sons.

However studentsâ unions are campaigning less and less on international issues, passing them off as Ultra Vires or not their role.

The path to industrial unionism should be followed through our fight in the trades unions.

To protect the jobs and wages of their members, trade unions insisted that the female dilutees did largely unskilled work.

The seven unions involved used the mass walkouts get themselves into the management of the proposed changes.

The agitation against the Chinese covered a space of over fifty years, a long period in the history of a young country, and was promoted and kept alive almost entirely by the trades unions, and the restriction acts were the first legislative triumph of the Labour party, albeit that party was not at the time directly represented in parliament.

Much of the improvement in the lot of the wage-earners has been due to the Labour organizations, yet so late as 1881 these organizations were of so little account, politically, that when the law relating to trades unions was passed in New South Wales, the English law was followed, and it was simply enacted that the purposes of any trades union shall not be deemed unlawful (so as to render a member liable to criminal prosecution for conspirac y or otherwise) merely by reason that they are in restraint of trade.

By it an arbitration court was instituted, consisting of a president and assessors representing the employers' unions and the workers' unions respectively; in any trade in which a dispute occurs, any union of workmen or employers registered under the act was given the right to bring the matter before the arbitration court, and if the court makes an award, an application may be made to it to make the award a " common rule," which thereupon becomes binding over the trade affected, wherever the act applies.

Later the division took another aspect, the extreme wing being constituted by the sindacalisti, who were opposed to all legislative parliamentary action and favored only direct revolutionary propaganda by means of the sindacati or unions which organized strikes and demonstrations.

Such groups (each with its local deity) would combine for definite purposes under the impulse of external needs, but owing to inevitable internal jealousies and the incessant feuds among a people averse from discipline and authority, the unions were not necessarily lasting.

It is not in the decay of combination and monopoly or in the growth of competition that we must look for the distinctive characteristics of modern problems. A 17th-century monopoly was a very weak and ineffective instrument compared with a modern syndicate; the Statute of Apprenticeship was certainly not so widely enforced as the " common rules " of trade unions; and many of the regulations of past times, which look so complicated to modern eyes, were conditions of free enterprise rather than restraints upon it.

Unions between slaves and free women, or between a freeman and the female slave of another, continued to be forbidden, and were long punished in certain circumstances with atrocious severity.

A new Small Holdings Act (1907) for England was passed; the Trades Disputes Act (1906) removed the position of trades unions from the controversy excited over the Taff Vale decision; Mr LloydGeorge's Patents Act (1907) and Merchant Shipping Act (1906) were welcomed by the tariff reformers as embodying their own policy; a long-standing debate was closed by the passing of the Deceased Wife's Sister Act (1907); and acts for establishing a public trustee, a court of criminal appeal, a system of probation for juvenile offenders, and a census of production, were passed in 1907.

Association for mutual help and counsel, contemplated in some degree in the early days, from Browne to the Savoy Declaration of 1658, but thereafter forced into abeyance, began early in the 19th century to find expression in County Unions on a voluntary basis, especially for promoting home missionary work.

Both unions had constitutions almost identical with that of the Afrikander Bond, and their aims were similar - to secure the triumph of Boer ideals in state and society.

The old-age and invalid insurance is carried out by thirty-one large territorial offices, to which must be added nine special unions.

No European race confronted with the problem of an immense coloured population has solved it more successfully than the Portuguese and their kinsmen in Brazil; in both countries intermarriage was freely resorted to, and the offspring of these mixed unions are superior in character and intelligence to most half-breeds.

The reckless system of outdoor relief, which had pauperized whole neighborhoods, was abolished, and the system of unions and workhouses established (see Poon LAW).

That the members of this " city of Zeus " should observe their contracts, abstain from mutual harm, combine to protect each other from injury, were obvious points of natural law; while again, it was clearly necessary to the preservation of human society that its members should form sexual unions, produce children, and bestow care on their rearing and training.

Even in the absence of the new issue, defeat was foredoomed for Mr Balfour's administration by the ordinary course of political events; and it might fairly be claimed that "Chinese slavery," "passive resistance," and labour irritation at the Taff Vale judgment (see Trade Unions) were mainly responsible for the Unionist collapse.

However, it would be wrong to assume that employers and unions put aside their differences during the war.

Unions will make their case during Stage 2 of the quinquennial review into OS, to be carried out by Spring 2002.

Phillip Bowman must urgently meet with the unions to begin the process to restore and rebuild workforce confidence.

We will agree a policy and procedure with the unions that is explicit and rigorous in the application of market supplements.

Vermont and Connecticut recognize same-sex civil unions while Massachusetts has legalized gay marriage.

Only the miners ' and the seafarers ' unions were willing to do so and they could not win on their own.

There are a number of trade unions outside the American Federation of Labor which strive to organize the unskilled and semiskilled workers.

Some unions tied up ministers using time slots allocated to CLP delegates.

Greens make common cause with smokestack industries, consumer activists with trade unions, development lobbyists with rich-country farmers.

The civil unions will give same-sex couples the same legal protections as married couples, including spousal health-care benefits.

It has one of the biggest Student Unions in the UK and is regarded by many students as one of the best.

Sir Digby Jones, director general of the CBI, said the government has succumbed to pressure from the unions.

He expresses surprise at the supine attitude of the Labor Party and the Trade Unions toward the motor slaughter.

Basically this is a mechanism to prevent " sweetheart unions ", that is unions that are controlled by employers.

The status of the teaching profession has not been enhanced by teacher unions pretending otherwise.

The trades unions say I ca n't use my sons.

It includes the trades unions, pensioners ' organizations, the Labor Party, the Co-operative movement and the Communist Party.

Ford employees were reached through LaunchPad 's partnership with EDAP, the Employe Development assistance Program run by the trade unions and management.

Modern trade unions, such as ATL, have transformed the way that they work.

The TUC 's regional staff represent the TUC by supporting TUC campaigns and objectives and seeking the views of trade unions in the regions.

We work closely with the National Union of Students and the lecturers ' unions as well as other bodies relevant to postgraduate education.

Our research shows that employees in unionized workplaces are still gaining in a variety of ways, relative to comparable workplaces without unions.

The following may seem unnecessarily harsh, but an unvarnished view is essential as we consider what unions and government ought to do next.

By attempting to squeeze more out of an inefficient employer unions are sweating a wasting asset.

On such shifting sands are the pensions of future generations to be built with barely a whimper of protest from Britain's trade unions.

Unions also need to continue to look further at their own policies, assuring family friendly union workplaces.

Domestic partnerships and civil unions offer some benefits similar to marriage.

Civil unions can also offer some of the same benefits as marriage including access to medical records, property transfer, and testimonial unity in the event of legal proceedings against one's spouse.

While domestic partnerships and civil unions can provide some means of protection, it is important to note that the partnership may not be recognized across state lines.

In those states that recognize common law marriages, these unions are typically defined as between a man and a woman.

After all, many unions actually combine two families, so stepchildren may also be involved.

Further reflection on love and marriage is also appropriate, as is advice from those who have had enduring and rewarding unions themselves.

Civil unions also fail to meet the details of many brides' dreams.

Often used at destination weddings or unions in tropical locales, beach theme wedding cakes are a unique way to celebrate natural beauty and break with tradition.

Even though most of these unions seemed to be matches made in heaven, it appears that celebrities have the same relationship struggles as everyone else.

Campus events centers and student unions provide programming on Friday and Saturday nights to lure students away from the party scene.

Advocacy clubs exist as well, such as the Black and Hispanic student unions.

Look for sound wide branch unions, not big limbs crammed against the trunk.

Transitional unions will allow you to solder or glue two unlike materials together.

As the cost of healthcare continues to rise, many companies and unions with large memberships have instituted a new approach to help their retirees with medical costs called a Retiree Medical Trust.

A federation of local unions, the Washington State Council of Fire Fighters collects monthly contributions of $75 from every participating employee and employer.

In Southern California a number of different unions formed a coalition to form a retiree medical trust.

The trustees of the fund are members from each of the different unions, and each employee contributes three percent of his salary to the trust fund.

Fraternal twins are referred to as dizygotic twins, meaning that two unions of two gametes or male/female sex cells occurred to produce two separate embryos.

The legalization of same-sex marriage and non-gender-specific civil unions is one of the major goals of gay rights activism.

Examples of these types of organizations would be churches, charitable organizations, labor unions, and any other groups locally that are willing to help single moms with purchasing a home.

Many gays would like to have the same things found in heterosexual relationships -- marriage, or civil unions as the case may be, home, and eventually children.

It is possible that the only solid conclusion is no matter how intricate the steps are, people still want to join together in unions of love that will last.

Celtic jewelry is increasingly popular as couples want unique engagement rings to symbolize their unions, and silver Celtic engagement rings are a versatile option to find unusual jewelry on a budget.

In fact, the Scorpio and Taurus combination represents one of the more positive zodiac unions since water and earth signs are generally compatible.

In 1935, the National Labor Relations Act brought unions to the automotive industry, and the UAW was formed.

It's the unions, automakers, the banks and the government.

The company also has group benefit plans for companies of all sizes, as well as other organizations, such as unions and schools.

In the beginning, benefit programs were created solely for labor unions.

Many labor unions and professional organizations offer group plans that members can join, provided they pay the cost of the premiums themselves.

Independent contractors may also wish to join unions established for consultants or professionals within their field in order to take advantage of the option to purchase group coverage.

If you belong to any artist unions or associations you may be able to find a suitable policy using an affiliate insurance company.

This program helps employers make health care benefits more affordable for older workers by providing $5 billion in financial help to unions and employers to help them keep coverage in place for workers who are age 55 and older.

And when Hitler attacked the unions and the industrialists, I was not a member of the unions and I was not concerned.

Loans on mortgage may also be granted to landowners and agricultural unions, with a view to the introduction of agricultural improvements.

He was nominated by his party in 1892 for re-election, but was defeated by Cleveland, this result being due, at least in part, to the labour strikes which occurred during the presidential campaign and arrayed the labour unions against the tariff party.

It was long believed that foxes and dogs would never interbreed; but several instances of such unions have been recorded, although they are undoubtedly rare.

In antiquity it was a common ceremony to arrange a holy marriage between male and female images, and such unions acted on the earth as a fertility charm.

But the influence of Cluny, even on monasteries that did not enter into its organism, was enormous; many adopted Cluny customs and practices and moulded their life and spirit after the model it set; and many such monasteries became in turn centres of revival and reform in many lands, so that during the 10th and 11th centuries arose free unions of monasteries based on a common observance derived from a central abbey.

In the course of the 12th century sporadic and limited unions of Black Monk monasteries arose in different parts.

The creation, in 1834, of poor law unions, and the establishment, in 1836, of civil registration districts, as a rule coterminous with them, provided a new basis for the taking of a census, and the operations in 1841 were made over accordingly to the supervision of the registrar-general and his staff.

Meanwhile the keystone of the regulative system had been laid by the passing of the Industrial Conciliation and Arbitration Act, under which disputes between employers and unions of workers are compulsorily settled by state tribunals; strikes and lock-outs are virtually prohibited in the case of organized work-people, and the conditions of employment in industries may be, and in many cases are, regulated by public boards and courts.

In addition to the original Sokol Society (founded in 1862) there are the special organizations of the Labour (Socialist) and the Catholic Gymnastic Unions (under Sokol influence).

Customs tariffs and the monetary unions, however, are centralized at Brussels, France - Sweden and Norway, July 9, 1904.

Both unions issue monthly bulletins and other publications giving useful information about these two services.'

The labour unions took advantage of this trouble to force Pennsylvania, Indiana, Illinois, Minnesota, Colorado and several other states to pass anti-Pinkerton statutes making it illegal to import irresponsible armed men from a distance to quell local disturbances.

The assumption explicitly made by General Walker that among the immigrants no influence was yet excited in restriction of population, is also not only gratuitous, but inherently weak; the European peasant who landed (where the great majority have stayed) in the eastern industrial states was thrown suddenly under the influence of the forces just referred to; forces possibly of stronger influence upon him than upon native classes, which are in general economically and socially more stable, On the whole, the better opinion is probably that of a later authority on the vital statistics of the country, Dr John Shaw Billings,i that though the characteristics of modern life doubtless influence the birth-rate somewhat, by raising the average age of marriage, lessening unions, and increasing divorce and prostitution, their great influence is through the transmutation into necessities of the luxuries of simpler times; not automatically, but in the direction of an increased resort to means for the prevention of child-bearing.

A departure of more recent origin has been the calling together of the smaller powers for the settlement of matters of general administrative interest, conferences such as those which led to the conclusion of the conventions creating the Postal Union, the Copyright and Industrial Property Unions, &c.