Word: afl
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...back to formal controls on many products besides oil. In approving a one-year extension of the President's power to regulate wages and prices last week, the Senate Banking Committee barely defeated, by a tie vote, a proposal requiring a return to mandatory controls. AFL-CIO Chief George Meany has said that labor unions, in major contract negotiations covering almost 5,000,000 workers this year, will not be bound by the Administration's rubbery guideline of 5.5% if food prices continue their upward march. Robert Nathan, a member of TIME'S Board of Economists, predicts...
...same press conference, Dunlop said that he fully agreed with a statement by COLC's labor-management advisory committee that "no single standard of wage settlements can be formally applicable at one time" to every union. White House spokesmen later emphasized the hold-the-line phraseology-but AFL-CIO President George Meany happily opined that "the chances of getting settlements higher than 5.5% today are much better." How about Dunlop's statement that 5.5% was still the standard? Said Meany: "I do not think he believes that...
Attending a meeting of the executive council of the AFL-CIO in Miami, President Nixon was more cordially received by labor than a year ago, when he was virtually snubbed by George Meany (see THE ECONOMY). But his amiable relations with the unions did not prevent the AFL-CIO hierarchy from issuing a statement protesting his budget: "The Federal Government's commitment to help solve the nation's major domestic problems is seriously endangered. Essential programs to strengthen American society and improve the quality of life are in jeopardy...
Though he is a plumber by trade, AFL-CIO President George Meany becomes a master stagehand when he sets up an appearance by President Nixon before the nation's labor leaders. Late in 1971, when union bosses were complaining that wage-price controls were rigged against workers, Meany personally wet-blanketed the President; he even forbade the union orchestra to play Ruffles and Flourishes when Nixon arrived at the AFL-CIO convention. But a rapprochement began when Meany turned benevolently neutral in last year's election. Last week, if music had been called for when Nixon addressed...
Nixon's appearance at the AFL-CIO meeting and the new flexibility in wages were only the two freshest roses tossed by the White House lately in labor's path. Meany was respectfully consulted on both Dunlop's appointment and that of Peter Brennan, a New York City hardhat leader who became the first union man to head the Labor Department in almost 20 years. The President also took the extraordinary step of inviting Meany to submit his personal nominees for several top-ranking jobs in the Housing and Urban Development, Commerce and Defense departments. Finally, Nixon...