Word: afl
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...build around ideas that will produce real victories a few years down the road when Reagan's policies start to sink the economy. The first task is differentiation; Democrats must start to distinguish themselves from the unsound ideas of the Republicans, enough so that on the next big issue AFL-CIO president Lane Kirkland won't be wandering around mumbling "a pox on both your houses." Those ideas must be clear enough so that people who still care about the dreams and simple notions of Roosevelt and Kennedy and Johnson will call Western Union...
About 120 members of Local 26 of the AFL-CIO Restaurant Institutional Employees and Bartenders Union voted overwhelmingly Tuesday night to strike if an agreement could not be reached. The approximately 120 union members at the Club are expected to ratify the contract in a vote today, union officials said...
...band of husky Teamsters from Ohio, in matching white T shirts, followed in a menacing way. Instead of limiting salaries, the delegates awarded Williams a $69,000 annual pay increase, bringing his salary to $225,000. That is more than twice the salary of Lane Kirkland, president of the AFL...
Kirkland, in one of his first moves as George Meany's successor, invited the Teamsters to rejoin the AFL-CIO, which had expelled the Teamsters in 1957 for corruption. Bringing the Teamsters back into the fold would yield the federation $380,000 a year in new dues and would ban the Teamsters from raiding other unions. But the Teamsters' executive board last week did not even ask the convention to consider the reunification overture...
...Teamsters' unsavory reputation, one AFL-CIO official summed up the situation accurately, if a bit cynically...