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...Normally AFL-CIO Chief George Meany treats former Teamster Boss Jimmy Hoffa with the silent contempt he might reserve for a scab laborer. But a few weeks ago, Hoffa delivered a diatribe that Meany could not ignore. Publicly championing a Teamsters assault on Cesar Chavez's United Farm Workers Union, Hoffa declared that the fledgling AFL-CIO affiliate must be stamped out because "Chavez is incompetent." An angry Meany responded at a press conference by charging that the Teamsters, whom he booted out of the AFL-CIO 15 years ago, were guilty of "strikebreaking...
...back to formal controls on many products besides oil. In approving a one-year extension of the President's power to regulate wages and prices last week, the Senate Banking Committee barely defeated, by a tie vote, a proposal requiring a return to mandatory controls. AFL-CIO Chief George Meany has said that labor unions, in major contract negotiations covering almost 5,000,000 workers this year, will not be bound by the Administration's rubbery guideline of 5.5% if food prices continue their upward march. Robert Nathan, a member of TIME'S Board of Economists, predicts...
...same press conference, Dunlop said that he fully agreed with a statement by COLC's labor-management advisory committee that "no single standard of wage settlements can be formally applicable at one time" to every union. White House spokesmen later emphasized the hold-the-line phraseology-but AFL-CIO President George Meany happily opined that "the chances of getting settlements higher than 5.5% today are much better." How about Dunlop's statement that 5.5% was still the standard? Said Meany: "I do not think he believes that...
Though he is a plumber by trade, AFL-CIO President George Meany becomes a master stagehand when he sets up an appearance by President Nixon before the nation's labor leaders. Late in 1971, when union bosses were complaining that wage-price controls were rigged against workers, Meany personally wet-blanketed the President; he even forbade the union orchestra to play Ruffles and Flourishes when Nixon arrived at the AFL-CIO convention. But a rapprochement began when Meany turned benevolently neutral in last year's election. Last week, if music had been called for when Nixon addressed...
Nixon's appearance at the AFL-CIO meeting and the new flexibility in wages were only the two freshest roses tossed by the White House lately in labor's path. Meany was respectfully consulted on both Dunlop's appointment and that of Peter Brennan, a New York City hardhat leader who became the first union man to head the Labor Department in almost 20 years. The President also took the extraordinary step of inviting Meany to submit his personal nominees for several top-ranking jobs in the Housing and Urban Development, Commerce and Defense departments. Finally, Nixon...