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...Hubert Humphrey, who has been looking and sounding more like a candidate every day, it was just like the good old times. Before him, in the grand ballroom of Pittsburgh's Hilton Hotel, nearly 2,000 delegates to the annual Pennsylvania AFL-CIO convention exuberantly chanted: "We want Humphrey! We want Humphrey!" Four times during his speech he brought the crowd to its feet to cheer and applaud. The din even briefly drowned out his spirited attack on both the Ford Administration and on Democratic presidential candidates who have tried to make Washington an election issue. Said...
...proposal was revived after Nixon took office in 1969, and in 1970 was passed. This bill, however, differed significantly from the original proposal, which, strongly supported by the AFL-CIO, had given the Secretary of Labor the authority to shut down immediately any plant presenting an imminent danger to employee health and safety. The Nixon Administration proposal, supported by the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, required OSHA to obtain a court injunction to shut down a plant, and hence virtually eliminated the possibility of effective, immediate preventive action in emergency cases. Also, the fines that could be levied for violations...
...hear the Wallace campaign rhetoric, one would think he had paved with gold the streets of Alabama's working class neighborhoods. Upon examining Wallace's record, however, one realizes that unfortunately those streets are merely potted asphalt. According to the director of the AFL-CIO committee on political education, "as a labor supporter, Wallace's poor posture is second to none...
According to figures released by the AFL-CIO last year, Alabama has some of the worst workmen's compensation and unemployment insurance laws in the country. It was one of only five states limiting the time a worker injured on the job could take to obtain medical treatment and one of only seven states to limit the amount of money spent for such treatment...
Labor supported the court's decision. AFL-CIO Special Counsel Larry Gold said the ruling provided "full remedy to employees who have actually suffered from discrimination." Yet the unions also served notice that they will vigorously oppose any effort to undermine the basic principles of the seniority system. Petitions from civil rights groups are now before the Supreme Court seeking to abolish seniority systems when the rule of "last hired, first fired" results in layoffs of nonwhites and women. The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission is siding with the civil rights groups; the Justice Department favors the unions' position...