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The Service Employees International Union could have written the book on how to get corporations to surrender. In fact, it has written the book. Lawyers for Sodexo USA, a subsidiary of France-based food services and facilities provider Sodexo Inc., recently revealed as much during the discovery phase of the company's federal racketeering suit against the union: an SEIU manual on how to intimidate employers. By applying extreme pressure, the monograph argued, a union can extract concessions from management on virtually any issue. Section Three of the text, fully 88 pages, can be downloaded from www.workplacechoice.org. The lawsuit, filed in March,...

I am a 39-year-old student at University of Texas at San Antonio. In February I was struck by a professor during an anti-war rally at the school. The professor was convicted of Class C misdemeanor Simple Assault in a criminal court. Two months later, as the semester ended, I was informed by the Student Office of Judicial Affairs that I am accused of five charges that include "disrupting a class." The local NBC affiliate caught the incident on tape. The events depicted on the news story are out of sequence. Watch the story here: http://www.woai.com/news/local/story.aspx?content_id=E397F441-E5C9-465D-A110-5FC4782A9F0C (cut& paste) Though an approved...