Word: afl
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Board, with a goal of stopping inflationary wage and salary increases, will draw its members from labor, management, and the public. Briefing newsmen before his speech, Nixon said that AFL-CIO president George Meany, United Auto Workers president Leonard Woodcock, and Teamsters president I.W. Abel would be members of that board...
...Army by blacks - a move that was averted when President Truman signed an Executive Order banning segregation in the Armed Forces. He served as director of the 1963 March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom. He is currently President Emeritus of the Brotherhood and a vice-president of the AFL...
Thursday's seminar on worker control of production and other economic issues facing unions will be moderated by Joseph Duffey, national chairman of Americans for Democratic Action. Participants will include representatives of the Teamsters, the AFL-CIO, and the academic world...
...moratorium on the boycott was announced by Cesar Chavez, leader of the UFWOC, after George Meany, president of the AFL-CIO, and Frank E. Fitzsimmons, president of the Teamsters, agreed to submit disputes between the two national unions to binding arbitration. The UFWOC, a member of the AFL-CIO, has been challenging the jurisdiction of the Teamsters to represent lettuce pickers...
Serious Students. The SST advocates are directly pressuring Congress as well. AFL-CIO President George Meany told a Senate Appropriations Subcommittee that the entire future of the American aerospace industry, already "in a state of economic shock," was at stake. He claimed that the SST could generate 50,000 aerospace jobs and another 150,000 in related industries. The U.S. is now too late to catch other nations in the first generation of SSTs, Meany argued, and it must hurry to "enter the competition for the second generation -the SSTs of the 1980s and 1990s...