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...Committee to Reinstate Sherman Holcombe voted last night to circulate the petition at House dining halls later this week. Holcombe's union, Local 26 of the Hotel, Restaurant, and Institutional Employees Union, AFL-CIO, drew up the petition...
...least one union, the American Federation of Government Employees (an AFL-CIO affiliate with 300,000 members), is serious about the notion. Its rationale: since military pay is already linked by law and practice to the salaries of federal civilian employees, the two should combine their muscle to bargain together. The union insists that wartime discipline would not become a matter of union negotiations. Union officials note that countries such as West Germany, The Netherlands and Sweden have unionized soldiers and no break down of discipline has resulted. What's more, as one joke among the Government Employees union...
Heartened by such successes, Moynihan started to take his show on the road. At an AFL-CIO convention in San Francisco last October, he approvingly cited a New York Times editorial that called Uganda's President Idi Amin a "racist murderer" and incorrectly added that it was "no accident" that Amin was chairman of the Organization of African Unity (O.A.U.). Moynihan thus in effect denounced moderate African leaders along with the infamous "Big Daddy"?a mistake that may have cost crucial votes on a motion to postpone, and thus possibly consign to oblivion, the notorious anti-Zionist resolution that...
...there were no job riots, no encampments of the unemployed in Washington, few loud calls for radical economic and social change. As the election year of 1976 opens, the AFL-CIO is calling for a damn-the-consequences drive to slash the jobless rate as rapidly as possible. It urges the Government to expand the money supply at whatever rate may be necessary, adopt whatever tax-and-spending policies seem called for, and even start direct public-hiring programs (the union federation does not say for what kind of jobs) to get the jobless rate down to 3% and keep...
What Not to Do. How to reach whatever targets might be set? The way not to do it is to adopt the AFL-ClO-Humphrey-Hawkins approach. This inevitably would pump so much money into the economy as to raise demand to the point at which employers sign on almost anybody who shows up, with the Government hiring the residue, many in make-work jobs. A non-partisan study last May by the Library of Congress indicated that an attempt to get the overall jobless rate down to 3% within 18 months would push inflation back...