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...after arguing that it would have hampered domestic coal production "when the nation can ill afford significant losses from this critical energy source." Though his veto was anticipated, it is sure to be unpopular. The strip-mining bill was supported by environmentalists, Ford's own Interior Department, the AFL-CIO, the United Mine Workers, United Auto Workers and farm and ranch organizations. It was even backed by a few big coal companies that were anxious to have some law-any law-enacted to clear up the uncertainty that has clouded their future in strip mining. Congressional advocates...
...employees' representative association--which is an in-house union, rather than an AFL-CIO affiliated one like the trades council--got a 7.6 per cent pay hike and 15 cents an hour extra for evening and night shift work in its new one-year contract...
...amendment. Faced with the sudden opposition, NOW began to organize a public relations and election campaign in states that had not voted for ratification. Overcoming labor's 50-year opposition to such an amendment, NOW in late 1973 managed to win endorsement of the ERA from the AFL-CIO. The 2,400-member Coalition of Labor Union Women that was formed last spring to end sex discrimination in union hiring, wages and job classification also endorsed it. The American Bar Association resolved last summer at its annual convention to "approve and affirmatively act" toward the ERA'S ratification...
...first surprising thing about the convention--the one that almost got old stalwarts like Al Barkan of the AFL-CIO's Committee on Political Education to walk out--was its renewed, if modified, support for affirmative action to make sure minorities, women and young people are represented within the party. On the face of it, this kind of equal-representation issue might seem tough for people who call themselves Democrats to oppose. But since the labels people give themselves are generally less important than their backgrounds, it's not too surprising that one wing of affirmative action's supporters...
Department of Legislation, AFL...