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...AFSCME, the largest trade union of public employees in the US, and other unions are already preparing a political offensive to counter what they expect will be an adverse decision....
...Its primary purpose will be to place into local UK law almost the entirety of currently applicable EU law....
...Unions such as the eastern US locals of AFSCME started to back defined contribution programs, such as those now passed into law in Illinois, Connecticut and Maryland....
...Four unions that had opposed the plan — AFSCME Council 31, the Chicago Teachers Union, the Illinois Nurses Association and Teamsters Local 700 — welcomed the ruling....
...“John is a brilliant, skillful, pragmatic labor leader-politician, at the top of the class,” said Nicholas, head of AFSCME Local 1199C, the hospital and health-care workers’ union....
...Some of the changes states are trying to roll out have faced or will face legal challenges brought by unions....
..., the largest public sector union....
...Richard Ferlauto, the director of corporate governance for AFSCME, the largest state and local government employees’ union, says: “By our count there are 40 to 50 directors of significantly sized companies...
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