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[1] [2] Such activism is often a response to specific conflicts with pro-whaling countries and organizations that practice commercial whaling and/or research whaling, as well as with indigenous groups engaged in subsistence whaling. Some anti-whaling factions have received criticism and legal action for extreme methods including violent direct ...
Pro-whaling advocates also argue that whaling continues to provide employment in the fishery, logistic and restaurant industries and that whale blubber can be converted into valuable oleochemicals while whale carcasses can be rendered into meat and bone meal. Poorer whaling nations argue that the need for resumption of whaling is pressing.
An unfair labor practice (ULP) in United States labor law refers to certain actions taken by employers or unions that violate the National Labor Relations Act of 1935 (49 Stat. 449) 29 U.S.C. § 151–169 (also known as the NLRA and the Wagner Act after NY Senator Robert F. Wagner [1]) and other legislation.
The permits allow 426 whales to be caught during each whaling season [Getty Images] Iceland has issued permits to two whale hunting ships for the next five years despite welfare concerns.
Denmark released anti-whaling activist Paul Watson from detention on Tuesday and said it had rejected a Japanese request to extradite him over criminal charges dating back more than a decade.
Public school teachers, RNs, professional, technical and non-professional health care workers. 2022: AFT: International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers (IBEW) 1891 820,000 Electrical manufacturing workers; electric utility workers. 2012: IBEW: Laborers' International Union of North America (LIUNA) 1903 669,772
In large part, Harris’ has gained the support of unions by serving with Biden, who has been viewed as the most pro-union president in history, even walking picket lines with United Auto Workers ...
The SEIU United Healthcare Workers West (SEIU-UHW) is a statewide local union of the Service Employees International Union in California in the United States. In 2020, it had 97,000 members, [1] down from nearly 150,000 in 2013. [2] UHW is headquartered in Oakland, California and has offices statewide. UHW is an industrial union representing ...