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Hart's single most successful tack during the primaries was charging Mondale with lapdog allegiance to the AFL-CIO. The extreme affinity between organized labor and the Democrats has become a central political concern. Democratic leaders must convince organized labor that the shifts in the U.S. economy-away from heavy manufacturing toward high-technology and service industries-need not be antithetical to workers' long-run interests. "Labor has a massive job of self-education to do," says Iowa Party Chairman David Nagle. "Labor will have to weed its own garden...
...unions hope for a payoff next time ore than a year ago, the 13.7 million-member AFL-CIO took the unprecedented step of endorsing a Democratic presidential candidate, Walter Mondale, before a single caucus or primary had been held. The goal: to establish labor early on as the decisive element in the Democrats' bid for the White House. "If we do not do what we propose to do, we shall be reviled as toothless and irrelevant," said AFL-CIO President Lane Kirkland at the time. "If we succeed, we shall be condemned for daring to aspire to a share...
...group," says Douglas Fraser, retired president of the United Auto Workers. Labor's all-out embrace also reinforced outdated expectations that its members would vote as a bloc. "The fact that people expect labor to deliver a unified vote is ridiculous," says Sam Fishman, president of the Michigan AFL-CIO. In 1964, 73% of labor households voted for L.B.J.; by the time Jimmy Carter ran for re-election in 1980, the Democrats' share of the union vote had dropped to 50%. "I don't even read the stuff they send me," says Robert McConnachie, a Reagan...
...Yale's AFL-CIO Local 34 has been on strike for the past six weeks. In that time, they have sought to pressure the administration into upping its offer or 'submitting the dispute to binding arbitration. For the last three days, a large number of Yale students and faculty have boycotted classes and all university facilities in order to demonstrate their dissatisfaction with the present stalemate to the administration...
About 3000 Yale employees have been off the job since the university and AFL-CIO Local 34 failed to reach an agreement on worker demands for pay raises and an end to alleged salary discrimination...