Word: afl
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...European nations. Assistant Secretary of State Richard Holbrooke stressed that the concept has not gone beyond the proposal stage since it was first talked about in the White House six months ago. "It is a good idea whose time hasn't come yet," Holbrooke said. The idea originated from AFL-CIO president Lane Kirkland and was discussed between Clinton and British Prime Minister John Major during their Washington summit yesterday . European nations have complained thatNAFTAand U.S. attempts to establish a similar agreement with countries across the Pacific could put them at a disadvantage...
...real economy and what the financial markets think is going on," says Robert Hormats, the vice chairman at Goldman Sachs International. The two sides, used to fighting with statistics, came as close as they could to meeting face to face: while Fed members deliberated last Tuesday, some 200 AFL-CIOled protesters gathered outside in the first such demonstration against rate hikes since farmers blocked the street with tractors in the early 1980s...
...both Littler, Mendelson and Seyfarth, Shaw are on an AFL-CIO list of "union busting" law firms...
...Commerce senior vice president for policy: "One day the President is bashing pharmaceutical companies. The next day he is breaking down doors to sell exports in China and Saudi Arabia. This Administration talks very pro-business in some respects, yet Secretary of Labor ((Robert)) Reich will go to an AFL-CIO convention and say, 'Your agenda is our agenda. We need bigger and stronger unions.' That leaves business confused." Well, maybe so. But when Ron Brown starts packing his bags, some of the most powerful executives in corporate America start packing theirs...
After the Ravenswood Aluminum Co. locked out members of the USW from a mill in West Virginia and hired nonunion workers to replace them, the AFL-CIO traced the company's ownership to Marc Rich. He is a former commodities speculator who fled the U.S., pursued by a flock of indictments, and rules interests throughout Europe. For almost two years, at the U.S. federation's request, unions in 20 countries harassed and disrupted Rich's activities until, in mid-1992, he ended the West Virginia lockout...