Word: afl
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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From the outside, the AFL-CIO objected to the breakup of the Education and Labor Committee, fearing that a Labor Committee would focus too narrowly, like some kind of arbitrator, on management-labor disputes. A coalition of environmental groups opposed the marriage of energy and environment in one committee, fearing that their cause would receive short shrift in a group dominated by energy producers...
...thus are not the primary cause of inflation. But the labor leaders voiced suspicion that Ford may yet resort to wage-price controls, despite his public disclaimers, and they sharply criticized the Federal Reserve's money policy. The bitterest attack was delivered in a separate forum by AFL-CIO President George Meany. In a speech in Kansas City, Mo., he declared that any Soviet economist who had as bad a record as Federal Reserve Chairman Arthur Burns would be "promoted" to Siberia...
...United Federation of Teachers, whose showdowns with local officials over salaries and a school decentralization plan made Shanker's militant reputation in the late 1960s. He is also executive vice president of the New York State United Teachers (200,000 members) and a vice president of the AFL-CIO, with which the A.F.T. is affiliated...
Beirne was a restless, philosophical leader; he called three strikes against the Bell System in 1947, 1968 and 1971, but acknowledged that automation would dull the cutting edge of his union's major weapon. A member of the executive council of the CIO (later, AFL-CIO) since 1949, Beirne was one of the few labor leaders to support George McGovern's presidential campaign...
...Teamsters suit charged that Sullivan violated a state housing authority law that requires "a representative of organized labor" to be among the five CHA commissioners. The law also requires Sullivan to select nominees submitted by the AFL-CIO Labor Council, the suit said...