51. On Friday, Bernstein led a conference for union presidents from across the nation to determine how teachers unions must be restructured to facilitate rather than stymie school reform. 52. Only one union president, Richard L. Trumka of the United Mine Workers, has publicly said he will consider running against Kirkland. 53. Ottavio Cinquanta, the skating union president, is directing the hearing. 54. Players union president Buck Williams foresees calm in the near future after a relatively peaceful union meeting during All-Star weekend. 55. Patrick Ewing, the union president, and several teammates will speak at SUNY-Purchase in Purchase, N.Y., where the Knicks train during the season. 56. Patrick Ewing, the union president, asked Jordan to take a more proactive role in negotiations last week. 57. Randi Weingarten, the union president, said Wednesday that she had been urging Silver to support mayoral control. 58. Several of those umpires remaining have formed groups, urging their colleagues to break with union head Richie Phillips and renounced the strategy advocated by union president Jerry Crawford. 59. Several disgruntled teachers consider the union president too chummy with the mayor, too willing to greet his education cuts with only mild complaints. 60. Several pro-union workers as well as R. Thomas Buffenbarger, the machinists union president, sent e-mail to the champ to complain. |