Word: afl
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...parades are scheduled for Sunday, when most delegates and reporters are arriving. Police expect 100,000 homosexuals to join a march from the Castro Street gay neighborhood to the Moscone Center, and an equal number of labor demonstrators to parade along Market Street to an AFL-CIO rally. Fortunately, the routes of the two groups will not cross. Police have set aside four acres of a parking lot across the street from the main entrance to the center, and 25 groups, ranging from the Marijuana Initiative to anti-Reagan rock musicians, have filed to use it more or less continuously...
...even how many people it might directly help or hurt. (It would have at least some minor effect on almost everybody who looks for work or pays taxes.) Republicans and Democrats, conservatives and liberals, business organizations and union leaders have lined up on both sides. Amendments have switched the AFL-CIO from strong initial support to last-minute opposition...
...pick crops that would otherwise rot for lack of field hands. Opponents charge that those "guest workers"-the total might swell to 500,000-would be cruelly exploited. Cesar Chavez, president of the 40,000-member United Farm Workers, calls the provision a "rent-a-slave" program; the AFL-CIO and Senator Simpson also denounce it. The provision will probably be modified or dropped in the House-Senate conference...
Polish authorities announced that Lis was captured with several incriminating documents, including a letter from a Solidarity leader in Brussels indicating that the AFL-CIO, the giant U.S. labor organization, had contributed $200,000 to the under ground and suggesting that more money might be forthcoming if the election boy cott was successful. Lis was charged with failing to end his role in Solidarity when the trade union was suspended, founding an illegal organization, entering into agreements with foreign organizations and using false identity documents...
...raise jobless youths' chances of finding work, the Administration has submitted a controversial bill creating a teen-age minimum wage of $2.50 an hour during summertime. The measure has been bitterly attacked by unions, who fear that it would undermine the current $3.35-an-hour rate. Says AFL-CIO Chief Economist Rudy Oswald: "We believe people should be paid for their work, not for their age or for their color...