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...repeal of Section 14B of the Taft-Hartley Act, which permits states to outlaw the union shop. Congressional leaders, smarting from the common-situs debacle, are unlikely even to introduce a repeal bill. There are other indications of labor's rapidly declining political clout. Carter passed over the AFL-CIO'S choices for Secretary of Labor (John Dunlop) and Secretary of Defense (James Schlesinger). He also has named New York City Human Rights Commissioner Eleanor Holmes Norton to head the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, though Meany & Co. had expressed a clear preference for Ronald Brown, head...
Only weeks ago, crusty George Meany crowed at the AFL-CIO executive council in Bal Harbour, Fla., that "the climate is good" for labor. The boast made sense: labor had spent $8.2 million to help elect a heavily Democratic Congress, and union votes had given Jimmy Carter a big lift toward the White House. Meany and his aides set down a list of ambitious legislative goals, then waited for the pro-labor Government to do its stuff (TIME, March...
...House, in a stunning rebuff to the unions, last month rejected the common-situs picketing bill, which would have allowed one striking union to shut down an entire construction site. The same week, the White House came out for a $2.50 minimum wage-50? less than the AFL-CIO had demanded and only a 2? increase over the present minimum. "Shameful," spluttered Meany...
Labor chiefs dismiss the setbacks as temporary. They admit that the customarily well-oiled AFL-CIO lobbying apparatus stumbled badly on the common-situs bill by ignoring warnings that the measure was in trouble until 48 hours before the vote. But, says Thomas Donahue, Meany's top assistant, "when you knock us down once, you don't get any prize. We've been down before, dusted ourselves off, and come back-and we will again...
...Stevens boycott has received the endorsement of the AFL-CIO and a number of leading southern civil rights advocates. Locally, a student committee last week sent letters to the Harvard Coop and the Harvard Student Agencies Linen Service asking them to observe the boycott. So far neither the Coop nor HSA has said that it will...