Word: afl
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...results will not be announced for at least another week or two, but private counts by the candidates' organizations make the outcome clear: the grandfatherly McBride, 60, defeated the firebrand Sadlowski, 38, by a margin of about 3 to 2. His victory will bring sighs of relief at AFL-CIO headquarters and in the councils of the steel industry. It means that the federation's biggest union has been kept out of the hands of a rebel, Sadlowski, who has sharply denounced George Meany's leadership. It also means that the Steelworkers will begin bargaining this week...
...trouble began in October with the expiration of contracts that had covered the seven unions representing the AFL-CIO's office and organizing staffs, 550 employees in all. The AFL-CIO's headquarters staffers are fairly well paid -writers, for example, make what they might at Baltimore or Washington newspapers-but bargaining for new contracts got mired in the matter of extending cost of living clauses. As union leaders, AFL-CIO officials have adamantly insisted that American workers should have such clauses as protection against inflation. But as employers, staffers began to wonder, did AFL-CIO executives feel...
Within hours management knuckled under and restored the pay boost. "Company" Spokesman Al Zack said it was all a mistake: the AFL-CIO's payroll department had not realized that the expired contracts required that all provisions, including the cost of living raises, be extended until a new agreement was initialed. Not all of the workers believed that explanation. Said one: "They wanted to kill the cost of living clause, in effect giving...
...week's end tempers were cooling. The union postponed its strike vote, and negotiations were proceeding smoothly. The AFL-CIO was determined to avoid a rerun of the embarrassing one-day walkout of part of its staff in 1970 (the issue then was wages). Yet tensions will persist within the AFL-CIO's walls -perhaps even after a new contract is signed. Complained one union chief: "This just goes to show that employers are the same everywhere...
...octogenarian Sunday painter's first one-man show, and it opened, appropriately, at the center for labor studies in suburban Washington, D.C., named after George Meany (see BUSINESS & ECONOMY). The gruff AFL-CIO boss began dabbling with a paint-by-numbers set 21 years ago, and was soon devoting an hour a day to landscapes and still lifes of his own. He got the idea for Bermuda Race from a newspaper photo; Merry Christmas was inspired by a clown on a greeting card. One red, yellow and blue abstract dubbed Unfilled originated as a doodle. Meany confessed that...