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Shultz joined the Nixon Cabinet in 1969 as Secretary of Labor. He was the only Administration official trusted by AFL-CIO President George Meany, and the two became avid golfing buddies. That friendship survived Shultz's most controversial action as Labor Secretary: promulgation of the Philadelphia Plan, which forced the construction industry to hire blacks and other minorities through the use of racial quotas...
...heavy-equipment workers who moved their families there from the Midwest. Now job seekers are finding that the recession has also hit Texas. New oil-and gas-well drilling is down 16.5%, and residential and commercial construction is weak. Two weeks ago, Harry Hubbard, president of the Texas AFL-CIO, warned the jobless to stay away. Said he: "Workers from the East and Northeast better have something lined up before they come down here, or they might find themselves in unemployment lines...
...union--Local 26 of the AFL-CIO's Hotel, Restaurant, Institutional Employees and Bartenders Union--then filed a grievance on Arruda's behalf last September...
...representative of the AFL-CIO and Mildred Jefferson, a Republican candidate for Massachusetts senator, also spoke at the meeting...
...yesterday's hearing Local 26 of the AFL-CIO presented five witnesses supporting their position that Vladimir Arruda should be rehired after he was convicted of attempting to set fire to a local Portugese social club. He is currently on three years probation for attempted arson...