21.   They were postal employees and were involved in organizing their union.

22.   They included increasing the minimum wage, improving early childhood education and making it easier for workers to organize unions.

23.   Wang added that the signers were only trying to raise awareness, not organize unions, something he said workers must do themselves.

24.   When it becomes clear that a cancellation of contracts will force the plant to close, the workers desperately try to organize a union.

25.   When Boris takes her to a factory, she immediately begins chattering to the workers about organizing a union.

26.   All the companies pledged to take a neutral stance toward union organizing drives, and to not take work away from a supplier whose factories organize unions.

27.   Arsenio Batoctoy, an official of the group, said it has documented cases of workers being fired or barred from company premises for trying to organize unions.

28.   Authorities have arrested dozens of people nationwide in the past few years for trying to organize unofficial unions.

29.   Eight of the nine complaints filed against Mexican employers under NAFTA have alleged violations of the right to organize unions.

30.   Harassment and threats against his family were stepped up last month when he and others began organizing the union, it said.