71.   Union members are convinced that corporate America wants to break the back of local unions.

72.   We were able to put in place one-year contracts with each local union that included the joint vision-building process.

73.   We would not want to tell a local union what to do.

74.   While the new union is the first nationwide union for doctors, local unions have been formed in California and Florida.

75.   Brian Murphy, president of the local union, said the union is ready to start organizing again.

76.   Critics complained it had spent too much time clashing with local unions and had cut social programs.

77.   Federation leader Mikhail Shmakov said local unions would lay the groundwork for a nationwide walkout with a campaign of hunger strikes and other protests.

78.   Local unions, however, have retained the right to veto any wage reductions.

79.   Luyt told Rapport he thought he had the support of local unions and his executive committee in the court suit.

80.   Luyt told Rapport he thought he had the support of local unions as well as his executive committee in the court suit.