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...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...
...union men, the worst enemy of all is Reaganomics. Lane Kirkland, president of the AFL-CIO, says that the Reagan Administration is practicing "Jonestown economics," giving "Kool-Aid to the poor and the deprived and the unemployed in this country," a reference to the mass suicide in Guyana in 1978 in which the deadly potion was a soft drink laced with cyanide. After Kirkland made the characterization at the AFL-CIO's executive council meeting in Bal Harbour, Fla., last week, Vice President George Bush, a visitor at the session, accused him of "groping for a headline...
Defense Secretary Caspar Weinberger also favors default. In addition, the AFL-CIO executive council last week called for a declaration of default during a meeting in Bal Harbour...
...provide food service for $2.00-$2.50 an hour less than the regular union shop. Although Powers denies allegations that the University has ever laid off a food service worker because of an outside contract. Domenic Bozzotto the president of Local 26. Hotel, Restaurant, Institutional Employees and Bartenders Union (AFL-CIO) contends that the University will eventually try to contract out dining halls currently run by his union. Two years ago, when the present contract was being negotiated, the University contracted out one smaller dining hall and shifted the workers to other areas. Bozzotto says...
...destructive, secret taping system was dramatically revealed early one afternoon at the Senate Watergate hearings in July 1973, Democrats rose in righteous wrath to assail the President. "It's an outrage," fumed House Speaker Carl Albert. "It's so fantastic as to be almost beyond belief," stormed AFL-CIO President George Meany. "A violation of privacy," snapped Nixon's defeated 1972 election opponent, George McGovern. And when Nixon's defenders suggested that he was only doing what John F. Kennedy had quietly practiced, Historian Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr., a Kennedy friend and onetime aide, found...