Word: afl
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...AFL-CIO president George Meany accused the Teamsters of a "vicious" and "disgraceful" campaign to destroy the UFW, but did not endorse the boycott, even though the UFW is an affiliate...
During the long night of vote watching, Carter sat, coatless, his tie loosened, eyes on the TV screens. He also spoke by telephone with AFL-CIO Chief George Meany, New York Mayor Abe Beame, Chicago Mayor Richard Daley, Minnesota Senator Hubert Humphrey and a nearly forgotten Democratic vice-presidential candidate, Tom Eagleton. He talked to Philadelphia Mayor Frank Rizzo, whom he had once scorned as one of the "political bosses" to whom he owed nothing. "I really appreciate what you did for me," he told Rizzo, referring to the breakthrough victory in Pennsylvania...
Despite all the "A.B.C." (Anybody But Carter) talk and some eleventh-hour feints by Hubert Humphrey, Carter had all but sealed his triumph by April 27, when he won Pennsylvania. Democratic power brokers like Chicago's Mayor Richard Daley, AFL-CIO President George Meany, and others who had seen Carter as an upstart and an outsider, rushed to back him. Last aboard the bandwagon were the liberals. Carter won them over by choosing Minnesota's Senator Walter (Fritz) Mondale as his running mate and by delivering an acceptance speech that amounted to a populist vision of social reform...
...AFL-CIO and the National Urban League argue, however, that the U.S. actually underestimates unemployment because it does not count people who have become so discouraged about seeking work that they have dropped out of the labor force. Counting them in, the AFL-CIO reckons that unemployment in September was not 7.8% but actually...
Good Friends. But later, President Ford vetoed the bill; he feared that the higher transport costs in U.S. ships would only incite further inflation, then running above 11%. That irked the maritime men, especially MEBA'S Calhoon. Says a top AFL-CIO official: "Jesse knows you've got to have friends in this business, and he's good at finding them." After Ford's apostasy, Calhoon threw the union's support behind Washington Democratic Senator Henry Jackson, who for defense reasons is a strong advocate of a healthy American merchant marine. Later, when Jackson...