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Wurf presided over strikes in New York ( 1965 ), Lansing ( 1966 ), Memphis ( 1968 ), Baltimore ( 1974 ) and more.
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Wurf broke with Zander over his allegiances to the AFL – CIO and to the mafia.
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Wurf was born in New York City in 1919.
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In 1965, Wurf called a constitutional convention for AFSCME in Washington.
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Local 448 was becoming powerful when HERE leadership incorporated it into Local 325 ( Cooks, Countermen, Subdispensers, Cashiers and Assistants ), then fired Wurf.
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However, in 1847 Karl von Staudt introduced the term Throw ( Wurf ) to avoid the metrical implication of a ratio.
Jerome ( Jerry ) Wurf ( May 18, 1919 – December 10, 1981 ) was a U. S. labor leader and president of the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees ( AFSCME ) from 1964 to 1981.
Wurf believes that hostile union leaders caused him to be systematically denied work in the following years.
AFSCME president Arnold Zander hired Wurf to the union in 1947, after it became clear that Wurf was not welcome in HERE.
At this point, AFSCME was not very powerful, and Wurf recalls being treated with contempt by other local organizers.
On the brink of quitting his job, Wurf was appointed, again by Zander, to the presidency of District Council 37.
In 1958, Wurf wrung from mayor Robert F. Wagner, Jr. an executive order giving the city's workers the right to form unions, and providing for elections which could establish these unions as exclusive bargaining agents for the workers in various city agencies.
Wurf and others unhappy with Zander's leadership formed COUR, the Committee on Union Responsibility, as an opposition party.
Wurf himself did not campaign actively in 1962, although he did receive a nomination for president.
Over the next two years, Zander tried to expel Wurf and other members of COUR from the union.
Zander and his supporters also published negative stories about Wurf in the union's newspaper, denying COUR access to the mailing list for its distribution.
In 1964, Wurf unseated Zander by just 21 votes, despite Zander's active use of his incumbent position to control the election procedurally.
After the announcement of his narrow victory, Wurf surrounded himself with bodyguards and sent three people to the union office in Washington to change the locks.
Wurf became the first challenger to defeat a president of a major AFL-CIO international union since Walter Reuther had done so in 1946.
When Wurf arrived at AFSCME offices at 815 Mount Vernon Place in Washington, they were trashed inside and outside.
After examining the account books, Wurf also realized that AFSCME was hundreds of thousands of dollars in debt.
Wurf sold the building and moved the union to a smaller office.
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In his first six weeks in office he presided over 96 conferences, attended 35 official breakfasts and dinners, studied and signed 285 official papers and personally took 312 telephone calls.
:* One who cultivates one of the fine arts – traditionally the arts presided over by the muses
Historically, in some Celtic monasteries abbesses presided over joint-houses of monks and nuns, the most famous example being Saint Brigid of Kildare's leadership in the founding of the monastery at Kildare in Ireland.
In 49, Agrippina presided over the exercises of Roman legions.
Johnson then presided over the initial and contentious Reconstruction era of the United States following the American Civil War.
No judges presided over the courts nor did anyone give legal direction to the jurors ; magistrates had only an administrative function and were laymen.
Like all early Germanic rulers, he was heavily involved in ecclesiastical disputes ; in 895, at the Diet of Tribur, he presided over a dispute between the Episcopal sees of Bremen, Hamburg and Cologne over jurisdictional authority, which saw Bremen and Hamburg remain a combined see, independent of the see of Cologne.
His rabbinic education was acquired mainly at Tiberias, in the academy presided over by R. Johanan, with whom his relations were almost those of a son ( Yer.
During the Civil War, prior to the siege of Raglan Castle in 1645, King Charles I visited Abergavenny and presided in person over the trial of Sir Trefor Williams, 1st Baronet of Llangibby, a Royalist who changed sides, and other Parliamentarians.
The four reportedly pledged themselves to Jihad in the Spring of 2000, in a ceremony presided over by Wail – who had dubbed himself Abu Mossaeb al-Janubi after one of Muhammad's companions.
It was presided over by Athanasius and Eusebius of Vercelli, and was directed against those who denied the divinity of the Holy Spirit, the human soul of Christ, and Christ's divinity.
The New York Times has identified 1520 Sedgwick Avenue " an otherwise unremarkable high-rise just north of the Cross Bronx Expressway and hard along the Major Deegan Expressway " as a starting point, where DJ Kool Herc presided over parties in the community room.
As president, Clinton presided over the longest period of peacetime economic expansion in American history.
Clinton presided over the longest period of peacetime economic expansion in American history.
The government of the Fourth Republic includes a strong presidency, a prime minister, a Council of Ministers presided over by the president, a two-chamber National Assembly, and the judiciary.
On 14 July 1879, another feast took place, with a semi-official aspect ; the events of the day included a reception in the Chamber of Deputies, organised and presided over by Léon Gambetta, a military review in Longchamp, and a Republican Feast in the Pré Catelan.
Having presided over relatively serene political, economic and social conditions, the feeling of prosperity in the UK had been maintained into the new millennium, and Labour would have a free hand to assert its ideals in the subsequent parliament.
Although he presided over a large majority, Sir Henry Campbell-Bannerman was overshadowed by his ministers, most notably Herbert Henry Asquith at the Exchequer, Edward Grey at the Foreign Office, Richard Burdon Haldane at the War Office and David Lloyd George at the Board of Trade.
For example, Reserve Bank of India governor James Braid Taylor presided over the country's move from silver currency to fiat money.
A collective body, the National Council of Public Safety ( CNSP ), presided over by Brigadier General Robert Guéi, took control.
The Qin Emperor presided over the brutal silencing of political opposition, including the event known as the burning of books and burying of scholars.
His government also presided over the decolonisation of a large part of the British Empire when India, Pakistan, Burma, Ceylon and Jordan were granted independence.
Attlee's administration presided over the successful transition from a wartime economy to peacetime, tackling problems of demobilisation, shortages of foreign currency, and adverse deficits in trade balances and government expenditure.
Charles was the main host and presided over the arena in which teams of amateur engineers battled their home-made radio-controlled robots against each other, and against the house robots.
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