Word: afl
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...several weeks of difficult negotiations with himself, 49-year-old W.J. ("Bill") Usery Jr. has decided to throw his hat into the ring alongside those of all the other labor leaders who are hoping to succeed 79-year-old George Meany as head of the roughly 14 million-member AFL-CIO. Usery will leave his $40,000-a-year post as President Nixon's chief labor negotiator and director of the Federal Mediation and Conciliation Service-from which an appointment as Secretary of Labor might have been easy to grasp. As head of the AFL-CIO'S newly...
...clock bargainer who often appealed to negotiators' patriotism. Usery was instrumental in averting a walkout of 13,000 railroad signalmen in 1969 and later settled a bitter, eleven-week teachers' strike in Philadelphia. In directing and coordinating the political, civil rights and community-affairs activities of the AFL-CIO'S extensive field staffs, he is expected to wield enormous influence within the labor movement. His lack of a solid power base within the AFL-CIO, however, may block his advance if Meany steps down in the near future...
...Roger Craig, A1 Jackson, Jim Hickman--this is a litany from somebody who never seemed to collect baseball cards. With Stengel in the dugout, these simple nobodies became a dangerous crowd of misfits. It was an easy charm. For these were lean years in New York: there were the AFL's Titans, a truly awful football team; the Knicks, who couldn't buy a bucket; and the Rangers, who perennially challenged the Boston Bruins for early draft picks...
...fitting that your Labor Day issue highlighted the current struggle between the United Farm Workers (AFL-CIO) and the corporate growers and Teamsters in California [Sept. 3]. The deplorable working conditions prevalent among the migrant farm workers call for a united stand for what is right and just, so that men are free to work without being exploited...
...several states, lenders are lobbying to raise the usury ceilings. They face strong opposition from critics who point out that mortgage lending has been running at a faster pace than a year ago (though it has begun to come down in the past month or so). In New Jersey, AFL-CIO officials want a rollback of permissible interest to 6%, contending this would enable people of modest incomes to afford housing. Oliver Jones, executive vice president of the Mortgage Bankers Association, calls such attitudes "medieval...