21.   The grade strike was called to pressure Yale to recognize a union for graduate teaching assistants.

22.   The new law makes France the first traditionally Catholic nation to recognize homosexual unions.

23.   The UAW began talking about organizing Mackie workers in February and the union was officially recognized three months ago.

24.   The university responded that it did not have to recognize the union because the advisers, which it calls resident assistants, were not workers.

25.   They hoped that Ohio, too, eventually would recognize their union.

26.   To persuade companies to recognize the union, it has often dangled some big carrots.

27.   Under voluntary card checks, companies agree to recognize a union as the bargaining agent for their workers if a majority of employees sign union cards.

28.   Union officials have even compared the current walkout with the historic Depression-era sit-down strike in Flint that forced GM to recognize the union in the first place.

29.   And most states will probably not recognize civil unions.