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...favor for a powerful labor boss that McAuliffe agreed to chair last Wednesday's gala. AFL-CIO president John Sweeney had become so unhappy with D.N.C. leaders that he threatened to stop affiliated unions from donating to the party unless McAuliffe took over its reins. Only he could raise a lot of money quickly to get Gore on the air during the lead-up to his nomination, Sweeney argued. McAuliffe was unwilling to take the full-time job, but he did promise to lead the drive for dollars. At 9 a.m. on March 27, he and associate Peter O'Keefe...
...panicking yet, but as Tumulty says, "in a close race, in key states, Nader could make a difference, especially if the union vote gets excited about him." Or if they just get fed up enough with lockstepping with New Democrats to sit out November on the couch. As AFL-CIO president John Sweeney said of the Dems' big bash last night: "Under the circumstance, it's not appropriate to attend...
...AFL-CIO has done a complete about-face on immigrants, from fearing them as low-wage rivals of American workers to viewing them as potential union members. The labor federation is even whooping up support for a legislative amnesty that would lift the fear of deportation from the estimated 6 million illegal immigrants now in the U.S. The Immigration and Naturalization Service has virtually stopped raiding businesses to look for undocumented workers. "It is much easier to find work now than ever before," says Josefina Diaz, a native of the Dominican Republic who cleans offices in midtown Manhattan. "It doesn...
Sources: The New York Times; USA Today; Gallup; AFL-CIO...
...Whatever pressure the President may bring to bear on House Democrats will more than likely be outweighed by concern, going into an election, to keep organized labor enthused about the Democratic party's prospects for winning back the House. The AFL-CIO is solidly against a China trade deal on the grounds that it has insufficient safeguards for human rights and labor standards, without which the unions fear that more manufacturing jobs will depart these shores for China's cheaper labor market. Thus the revival of the coalition between pro-labor Democrats and conservative Republicans that fought NAFTA. Of course...