MULO has through the years been a training ground for left-leaning labor unionists.

A few sympathetic Israelis -human-rights advocates and left-wing labor unionists - had journeyed south through the military checkpoint, doubting that the carpenters could succeed.

But labor unionists also embraced Bellamy's vision, as did the newly emerging populist movement among farmers.

The participants included labor unionists and people favoring the withdrawal of Soviet troops from Afghanistan.

According to labor unionists, he said at the time, "I can hire one-half of the working class to kill the other half."

In 1971 a coalition of labor unionists, children's advocates and feminists persuaded Congress to pass the first national child care legislation.

The instruments of torture that Hitler has prepared for the Jews have been turned on the labor unionists.

The gloom over the plant's prospects has spread to some labor unionists.

Their targets have included human rights defenders, labor unionists and victims of the former AUC.

Even other labor unionists have come out against the strikers.