Organizing to Win: Introduction

[Excerpt] The American labor movement is at a watershed. For the first time since the early years of industrial unionism sixty years ago, there is near-universal agreement among union leaders that the future of the movement depends on massive new organizing. In October 1995, John Sweeney, Richard Trumka, and Linda Chavez-Thompson were swept into the top offices of the AFL-CIO, following a campaign that promised organizing at an unprecedented pace and scale. Since taking office, the new AFL-CIO leadership team has created a separate organizing department and has committed $20 million to support coordinated large-scale industry-based organizing drives. In addition, in the summer of 1996, the AFL-CIO launched the Union Summer program, which placed more than a thousand college students and young workers in organizing campaigns across the country

Further investigations of the effects of the hypoxic-cell radiosensitizer, Ro-07-0582, on local control of a mouse tumour.

The tumour used, designated MT1, is a more radiosensitive form of the anaplastic MT tumour previously described. No explanation for the increased radiosensitivity was found, but it was shown not to be due to infection or to a change in immunological status, growth rate or histology. The sensitivity has remained constant throughout the present work. No cytotoxicity in the tumour was observed when 1 mg/g body weight of Ro-07-0582 was injected immediately after a single dose of X-rays; indeed a small protective effect was seen. A radiosensitization enhancement of 1-5 was achieved with a relatively low drug dose of Ro-07-0582 in a 5F/4d fractionated regime. The interval between the injection of a low dose of Ro-07-0582 and the start of irradiation was found to be critical, the optimum interval being 45-60 min. The subsequent incidence of distant metastases was not increased by the use of Ro-07-0582 at the time of "primary" tumour irradiation

Modest radiosensitization of solid tumours in C3H mice by the hypoxic cell radiosensitizer NDPP.

The x-ray dose required to cure half the mice bearing first generation transplanted mammary carcinomata 150 days after irradiation was determined. NDPP proved to be a relatively poor radiosensitizer in mice, for although a maximum enhancement ratio of 1-3 was obtained when x-rays produced from a 1-4 MeVp electron accelerator were given between 10 and 17 min after the administration of NDPP, this was at a drug concentration sufficient to cause marked kidney abnormalities in 5-10% of the mice

Introduction: The Context for the Reform of Labor Law

[Excerpt] It has become increasingly clear that the U.S. system of collective bargaining is no longer a realistic option for a large and growing proportion of American workers, and the situation will continue to worsen absent a major redirection of public policy. The decline in union density rates in this country is alarming to those who value and promote unionization. The extent to which this decline is due to management resistance and the failure of the law to promote collective bargaining is an important question that requires continued study and debate. Opinion polls reveal that for millions of nonunion American workers, workplace representation is an unfulfilled goal. These and other concerns about the inadequacy of U.S. labor law motivated the Clinton Administration to create the Commission on the Future of Worker-Management Relations, chaired by John Dunlop and charged with examining the laws that govern and shape relations in America\u27s workplaces. In the same spirit, the Department of Economic Research of the AFL-CIO and the School of Industrial and Labor Relations at Cornell University convened a conference on labor law reform in October 1993. Nearly forty papers and speeches advanced a variety of ways to correct the inadequacies in our system of union-management regulation. This volume contains a selection of the papers from that conference, chosen to reflect the diversity of opinion and thought represented. While all of the views and policy recommendations expressed in the papers are not necessarily fully shared by the, editors, the AFL-CIO, or Cornell, they are stimulating and provocative and deserve the widest possible discussion and debate. Our aim in producing this book is to stimulate public awareness about the need for fundamental reform of the legal and institutional underpinnings of the U.S. system of workplace representation and to offer proposals for the content of that reform

Trigger, an active release experiment that stimulated auroral particle precipitation and wave emissions

The experiment design, including a description of the diagnostic and chemical release payload, and the general results are given for an auroral process simulation experiment. A drastic increase of the field aligned charged particle flux was observed over the approximate energy range 10 eV to more than 300 keV, starting about 150 ms after the release and lasting about one second. The is evidence of a second particle burst, starting one second after the release and lasting for tens of seconds, and evidence for a periodic train of particle bursts occurring with a 7.7 second period from 40 to 130 seconds after the release. A transient electric field pulse of 200 mv/m appeared just before the particle flux increase started. Electrostatic wave emissions around 2 kHz, as well as a delayed perturbation of the E-region below the plasma cloud were also observed. Some of the particle observations are interpreted in terms of field aligned electrostatic acceleration a few hundred kilometers above the injected plasma cloud. It is suggested that the acceleration electric field was created by an instability driven by field aligned currents originating in the plasma cloud