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Criticizing Democratic campaigners for taking union support for granted in the most recent presidential and legislative elections, the AFL-CIO political director presented his organization’s new strategy for regaining political clout in the 2004 presidential election in the Barker Center for the Humanities yesterday evening...
...AFL-CIO is working to ensure that a candidate sympathetic to its interests wins the next presidential election, he said...
...also has been the defendant in 28 complaints brought by the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) over alleged antiunion activities, including firing employees suspected of being friendly to organized labor. "The company is dragging wages and benefit levels back to 19th century standards," says John Sweeney, president of the AFL-CIO, which is sponsoring an organizing effort at the company's stores...
...increased productivity gleaned from the sweat of a layoff-decimated work force results in plenty of grousing. Manufacturing workers call ghost work "speed-up" (because the remaining employees have to hustle harder) or "stretch-out" (because of the longer hours). "They call it productivity," says Lane Windham, an AFL-CIO spokesman, referring to management...
...just 41,000 votes in Missouri and New Hampshire. It's also true that those votes swung Republican, and in the minds of voters, the problem wasn't that the Democratic message was obscured but that the Democrats obscured it. After examining a postelection poll of his members, AFL-CIO president John Sweeney said they felt "neither party has a plan to strengthen the economy." But he added that "this is a particularly strong indictment of the Democrats. They needed to be crystal clear about what they stand for on issues of importance to workers--jobs, the economy, health care...