Weekly Theme: Week of 02/28 to 03/05/2016

The Theme for this Week is Union.  We hear variations, of the following sentence, every January, in front of a Joint Session of Congress:  "The State of our Union is Strong".  There's also a Sunday Morning show, on CNN, called, "State of the Union".  So, everyone's concerned about, what, the State (Health)?  --  of our Union?  But do people even know what the word, "Union" mean?  I had to go to Google for that:  I see two categories of meanings:  The first, shows one reason people, elsewhere in the World have trouble learning English.  It's a "Noun, about a Verb":   "the action or fact of joining or being joined, especially in a political context".  (See, the "noun" is "action", about a verb, "join".  As far as I know, there isn't a derivative of "union", that's a verb, only derivatives of synonyms.  For example, a verb "Merge", the related noun, "Merger" which, as far as I can tell, is a direct synonym of Union).  Now, the 2nd meaning is easier to understand:  "Collective Bargaining", best known, in the usage of "Labor Union".  But this fits our Theme better, anyway.

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