Battling for the union worker

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Judith Scott, the general counsel of the Service Employees International Union, the fastest-growing US labor union totaling 1.3 mil US members and 100,000 Canadian ones with members working in health care, the building services industry. and the public sector, has a multicultural membership and one which is 52% female. Health care workers are joining the union not just for salary issues but to have a voice in patient care. According to Scott, the goal of the union is to elect a pro-worker Congress.

United States, Management, Corporate counsel, Service Employees International Union, Scott, Judith

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PTO blacks and commissioner clash

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Afro-American government attorneys have charged the Patent and Trademark Office (PTO) with racism and there are rumors of impending departures. In Jan 1998 Asst Patent Commissioner Lawrence J. Goffney Jr gave a speech to PTO employees saying diversity had died when black Commerce Secretary died in an airplan accident. Allegedly the representation of minorities in the higher PTO ranks has been eroding under PTO Secretary Bruce Lehman's administration.

Employment, United States. Patent and Trademark Office, Government attorneys, African American attorneys, African American lawyers

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Cal. appeals court say mandatory CLE is illegal; lawyers likely to skip future education sessions

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A California appellate court has ruled in Warden v. State Bar that the state's mandatory continuing legal education program was a violation of attorneys' equal protection rights because of the program's exemption of legislators and law professors. The high court may not be able to rule on an appeal because of a state court rule that the establishment and administration of the continuing legal education program be by the bar.

Cases, Law, Equality before the law, Equal protection, California, Continuing legal education

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