Word: afl
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Rogers: "We want to get so many phone calls going into the company that they can't make phone calls out." The union has allotted $1.5 million a year for the next ten years for the Stevens campaign, and has a pledge of full support from the AFL...
...Wurf and the other union chiefs at the AFL-CIO meeting, the play seemed as earnest as the work. The labor leaders had converged on Bal Harbour with their customary large supporting casts. Teachers Union Chief Albert Shanker, for example, arrived with his wife and three children. Other union bosses brought along legions of aides, among them their legislative advisers, public relations assistants and political operatives, as well as a secretary...
...join the leisure class for the rest of the day. The daytime pleasures include golf, deep-sea fishing, the thoroughbreds at nearby Gulfstream Park and gin rummy beside the pool. By night, the union moguls could be found at restaurants like the Americana's Gaucho Room-known in AFL-CIO circles as the "Gotcha Room," in honor of its $70 steak dinner for two-or such Miami spas as the Cafe Chauveron, where a $100 tab for two is standard...
...needs a cane to get around. His eyesight is so poor that when he plays golf, he has to have his aides tell him how far it is to the green. But during "the Meany show," the midday press conference that follows each closed-door, morning meeting, the AFL-CIO chiefs humor is as quick and salty as ever...
Ullman's handiwork evoked howls of criticism from labor and business economists alike. "An administrative nightmare," declared AFL-CIO Research Director Rudy Oswald. "It's pro-Sun Belt and anti-Snow Belt," complained Jack Carlson, the chief economist of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, who objected to the bias for only growing firms...