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...business flight to Southern lands of modest wages and right-to-work laws, as well as the increasing use of slick consultants who collaborate with management to create a "union-free environment." Last October an alarmed Robert Georgine, president of the traditionally conservative building and trades department of the AFL-CIO, testified at Congressional hearings that "union-busting is a rapidly expanding and growing industry itself...
...this atmosphere of tension unionists are becoming sensitive to the ways corporations are using the deferred savings of their employees. Shortly before he assumed the AFL-CIO helm, Lane Kirkland told his colleagues that "pension funds have been used by some banks and investment counselors to finance runaway employers to the injury of the very unions and workers who negotiated and created those funds. That has to stop." The question of who has the right to control pension-fund investment is a controversial one with far-reaching implications for the structure of the economy...
...must go a long way in educating the rank and file before they can be sure the members will fight for pension control demands presented on the bargaining table. Increased educational programs may be one of the recommendations in a forthcoming study of the pension issue commissioned by the AFL-CIO Executive Council. The AFL-CIO's Industrial Union Department is also expected to release its own study of the matter in the next few months...
...clear pattern of anti-union discrimination has emerged from this screening process," Ira Sills, attorney for Local 26 of the Hotel, Restaurant, Bartenders and Institutional Employees Union AFL-CIO, said yesterday...
...AFL-CIO President Lane Kirkland says that the proposed budget "may have psychological value for the bond market and for bankers" but "places most of the burden on those suffering worst under the present economic conditions." The Congressional Black Caucus, a group of 17 Representatives, is no less worried. Representative Parren Mitchell, of Baltimore, has advised his fellow blacks to use every parliamentary tactic available to block budget cuts that would hurt their constituents, such as reductions in job-training programs and aid to cities. Says Mitchell: "The President has got to run the risk of losing another whole block...