71.   Specialists attribute the lag in union membership growth to layoffs, plant closings, and restructuring in the manufacturing sector, long a bedrock of unionism.

72.   Still, many RAs believe union membership would provide sufficient protection from such unilateral university action.

73.   Support from men continues to weaken, Democrat-based union membership has plummeted and Roman Catholics and evangelical Christians are leaving in large numbers.

74.   That opposition helps explain the decline in union membership.

75.   The changes must be approved by the skating union membership, which meets in June in Kyoto, Japan.

76.   The company responded that it was seeking a fresh start at a financially troubled resort and that it hired its new staff without regard for union membership.

77.   The congressional proposals are simply an attempt to increase union membership, he said.

78.   The Center Party opposes monetary union membership.

79.   The decline in union membership and bargaining power has softened wage demands.

80.   The federal government is an open shop, meaning that union membership is not a condition of employment.