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Workers United won a significant organizing victory in the U.S. apparel manufacturing industry in July 2010. [13] The workers, with the support of state politicians [14] and Hollywood stars, [15] won a contract and successfully pressured the employer to keep the plant open. [citation needed] SEIU and UNITE HERE agreed to end their dispute on ...
[117] [118] Workers hold that all church teachings are based solely on the Bible. [L] [M] A catchphrase frequently used to describe the church is: "The church in the home, and the ministry without a home." [14] [119] Church members and "workers" will publicly declare that the church does not own any buildings. This is not strictly true: in fact ...
The Christadelphians are one of only a small number of churches whose identity as a denomination is directly linked to the issue of Christian pacifism. [32] Although the grouping which later took the name "Christadelphian" had largely separated from the Campbellite movement in Scotland and America after 1848, it was conscription in the American Civil War which caused their local church in Ogle ...
The Malankara Orthodox Diocese of Southwest America, sometimes referred to as the Southwest Diocese or DS-WA is a diocese of the Malankara Orthodox Syrian Church. The diocesan headquarters are located in unincorporated Fort Bend County, Texas , with a postal address of Beasley , [ 3 ] a suburban city in Texas 40 miles from downtown Houston .
On December 1, 1961, the House Un-American Activities Committee (HUAC) published a 288-page book entitled Guide to Subversive Organizations and Publications. [1] This massive list, annotated with notes documenting the first official government mention of alleged communist affiliation, superseded a very similar list published on January 2, 1957. [1]
In 1941, Maxwell Copelof, a New York State government official and private arbitrator, represented Amalgamated Bank in Amalgamated Bank of New York vs. United Office and Professional Workers of America, Local 16 (UOPWA) on the issue of job assignment. [8] On November 3, 1946, UOPWA won a strike for higher wages against Merchants Bank of New ...
NCC is an ecumenical partnership of 38 Christian faith groups in the United States. Its member communions include mainline Protestant, Eastern Orthodox, Oriental Orthodox, African-American, evangelical, and historic peace churches. Together, it encompasses more than 100,000 local congregations and 40 million adherents. [2]
In the 1930s, the St. Louis Workers served 3,400 people a day while the Detroit Workers served around 600 a day. [9] The Catholic Worker newspaper spread the idea to other cities in the United States, as well as to Canada and the United Kingdom, through the reports printed by those who had experienced working in the houses of hospitality. [6]