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Affirmative Action. The party left wanted a system of specific quotas, as in 1972; the party right - notably the AFL-CIO - desired no hint of quotas that might dilute its traditional power in par ty affairs. Going into Kansas City, Strauss had managed to get both sides to agree to a compromise that had been worked out by a commission headed by Mikulski in drawing up the 1976 rules...
After George McGovern's humiliating defeat in 1972, Strauss was backed by party regulars-including Senator Henry M. Jackson, Senator Hubert Humphrey and the AFL-CIO'S Alexander Barkan-to replace Party Chairman Jean Westwood, a McGovernite liberal...
City officials vow to be tough bargainers. "A new militancy on the part of municipal employees requires a new militancy on our part," says Donald H. Weinburg, personnel director for Washington, D.C. But there are doubts as to how successful the administrators will be. The AFL-CIO has melded 25 government unions into a new public-employees department, staffed by seasoned negotiators who will square off against city officials unaccustomed to hard bargaining. Says Carroll Harvey of Washington's Match Institution, an urban-planning agency: "City negotiators will be sitting down with some of the hardest-nosed pros...
...that AFL-CIO President George Meany has passed the word that the new Congressmen are honor-bound to reciprocate or face labor's wrath in the next election. Does Mr. Meany feel that he has bought their votes on labor-oriented bills with AFL-CIO campaign contributions? If a Congressman does not vote on a bill solely on its own merits because of these donations, then it sounds like bribery...
TIME'S description of AFL-CIO lobbying [Nov. 25] is grossly inaccurate. We don't beg or threaten. We expect members of Congress to keep the promises they made to the voters...