Less clear is whether Delphi's second-largest union will show similar restraint.

By 1989, NFFE-once the second-largest union representing federal workers-had shed nearly three-quarters of its members.

The IAM claimed to represent more than 100,000 federal workers, making it the second-largest union of federal workers.

The problems could derail plans to create a two-million-member behemoth, which would be the nation's second-largest union, behind only the National Education Association.

Members of the second-largest union representing state workers voted out their incumbent president two months ago, apparently in anger over state layoffs.

The federation is the nation's second-largest union, a 1.4-million-member organization that recently surpassed the Teamsters in size, while remaining behind the National Education Association.

As head of the American Federation of Teachers, the nation's second-largest union, with 1.3 million members, she was an impassioned advocate for the public schools that educated her.

Talks with the second-largest union have stalled as the administration has offered it, too, a four-year deal with no increases.

The Workers Commissions, a Communist-oriented group and Spain's second-largest union, organized the action by transportation workers.

He added that the machinists, which were the second-largest union at Weyerhaeuser, recommended him as one of UAL's four independent directors.