Word: afl
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...will not be a part of the window dressing for this system of unfair and inequitable Government control of wages for the benefit of business profits." On that tendentious note, George Meany, autocratic boss of the AFL-CIO, followed through on a recurring threat last week and stomped off the Pay Board. Three other labor leaders walked out with him. Their immediate reason for resigning: the board's decision to override them and cut back the West Coast dock-strike settlement from a 20.6% first-year raise to 14.9%, which itself is more than twice the basic wage guidepost...
Politics First. Meany's opposition was inspired more by politics than economics. In the upper ranks of the AFL-CIO, the distrust and dislike of Richard Nixon is so intense that, as one Teamster officer says, it verges on "paranoia." Many months ago, Meany demanded wage-price controls while the President was still voicing an almost theological opposition to them. When the President turned around and embraced controls, Meany held out for a tripartite Pay Board with labor representation-and got it. Meany has not attended a board meeting since November, but he has sent his economist Nat Goldfinger...
...Hartke-Burke bill is being co-sponsored by four Senators and 66 Representatives and pushed by the AFL-CIO in a break with unionism's free-trade tradition. In Bergsten's view, that reversal has come about because workers in steel, textiles, shoes and glass, whose industries have been hurt by imports, are heavily overrepresented in the AFL-CIO, while workers in big exporting industries like chemicals and machinery are underrepresented. Fortunately, the dangerous Hartke-Burke bill is likely to be bottled up in committee this year. Its existence, however, and the protectionist strength indicated by its list...
...Greater Boston Labor Council, AFL-CIO, supported the Herald-Traveler Corporation's plea for a temporary stay, arguing that about 2500 Herald-Traveler newspaper employees would be forced out of work, and that many might also lose their retirement benefits...
Members of the Union decided early in the strike not to affiliate with the only local service workers union AFL-CIO Local 277, because it is not an agressive union in bargaining for its members, and according to Welch, many of its present members are dissatisfied with...