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Yesterday's rally, which featured speeches by Domenic N. Bozzotto, president of AFL-CLO Local 26, was the first in a series of demonstrations, this week designed to convince the Harvard governing board of the immorality of its investment in companies with South African operations...
...Trade Representative for the past four years, William E. Brock, 54, has been a vocal opponent of the protectionism that many labor leaders have demanded for their beleaguered industries. As a four-term Republican Congressman and a one-term Senator from Tennessee until 1976, Brock was so conservative, the AFL-CIO says, that he voted with labor on only 14% of the issues that mattered most to it. Earlier, as an executive of his family's candy company, he supported its nonunion-shop policy. So when President Reagan selected Brock last week to replace Raymond Donovan as Secretary of Labor...
...reason for the friendly welcome is that relations between the Administration and union leaders could hardly get worse; the AFL-CIO threw its support behind Democrat Walter Mondale more than a year before last November's election, and Reagan successfully blasted his foe as a captive of such "special interests." Furthermore, Donovan, a former New Jersey construction-company executive, had done little to build a smoother relationship. Repeatedly under investigation, and finally indicted on fraud and larceny charges last October, he was too preoccupied to be effective. Although Reagan defended Donovan to the end, many of the President's aides...
Brock has strengths of his own that make him attractive to many labor leaders. Unpretentious and relaxed, he is a political operator who exudes reasonableness even when dealing with opponents. Said one AFL-CIO official: "We disagree with Brock, but Brock listens." Said Brock of Kirkland: "He's an old friend, a man I have a great respect for, and a man I think I can work comfortably with." Nor has Brock's record as Trade Representative been completely inimical to labor. While he argued strongly for free trade, Brock nevertheless negotiated voluntary import restrictions with foreign auto and steel...
...softened enforcement of occupational safety and health regulations and of fair labor standards. He also allowed the Labor Department's budget to be cut from $30.1 billion to $23.5 billion and its work force trimmed from 22,000 to fewer than 18,000. One of Donovan's harshest critics, AFL-CIO President Lane Kirkland, said last week that his organization "hopes that the President now will appoint a person who enjoys the respect and confidence of labor as well as management and the public at large...