Word: afl
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...marchers--some of them members of AFL-CIO locals, the United Electrical Workers, and other labor unions supporting the UFW--periodically broke into "Solidarity Forever," "Union Maid," and other songs made popular by the labor movements of the 1930s...
Speakers at Faneuil Hall will include Tom Stanton, who headed Ralph Nader's Tax Reform Research Group and Nick Jones, New England coordinator for the United Farm Workers AFL...
...legislation. He pressed for the impeachment of William O. Douglas, the Supreme Court's staunchest defender of civil liberties, primarily because Douglas had written an article for a magazine considered pornographic. Ford opposed Democratic bills to increase minimum wage levels; during his vice-presidential confirmation hearings last year, the AFL-CIO totaled up his 25 years of voting and came to the conclusion that he voted against workers' interests 94 per cent of the time--the third best anti-labor record in Congress. And as a self-proclaimed "internationalist," Ford consistently supported the Indochina...
...American Civil Liberties Union makes eleven charges; the AFL-CIO lists 19, and a public-interest law group, concentrating solely on criminal charges, lists "28 violations of law" committed by the President "or by persons answerable to him." Some of these lists give the impression of piling on charges, so that if one does not stick, another will. There are four mam categories to consider, of which the last two are the more compelling...
...seen as a bellwether for November's balloting, both parties trotted out some of their big names to join the campaign-Vice President Gerald Ford for Fox, Senators Henry Jackson, Walter Mondale, Edmund Muskie and Joseph Biden for Murtha. In addition, Murtha was heavily supported by various AFL-CIO political organizations whose leaders were hoping to post a first score in George Meany's four-month-old campaign to make life increasingly more difficult for President Nixon...