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Members of the Union decided early in the strike not to affiliate with the only local service workers union AFL-CIO Local 277, because it is not an agressive union in bargaining for its members, and according to Welch, many of its present members are dissatisfied with...
LABOR. The traditional power tactic of labor leaders has been to get their members selected as uncommitted delegates. This enhanced their collective power at the convention. But they are finding that unless they can stack a local caucus, uncommitted slates or individuals can rarely win now. AFL-CIO officials running as uncommitted delegates in Arizona, for example, were soundly defeated; five of Arizona's 25 elected delegates are uncommitted. This trend is pressuring labor to choose sides earlier...
Speaking to a meeting of AFL-CIO price monitors in Washington last week, Price Commission Chairman C. Jackson Grayson made a startling admission: it is impossible for ordinary consumers to know whether increases on the products they buy are legal or not. Indeed, added a top official of the Internal Revenue Service, the widely displayed invitations for customers to inspect "base price lists" are "largely psychological." Customers who take the trouble to pore through a store's all-but-unintelligible price lists still have no way of knowing whether any single price increase conforms to Phase II guidelines...
...aide to General Electric Vice President Virgil Day, the informal business leader, is onetime U.S. Steel Chairman Roger Blough, a dirty word to many unionists. The labor men, for their part, have taken to sending alternates to most meetings. The choice of AFL-CIO President George Meany, who has been recovering from an attack of chest pains, is Nathaniel (Nat) Goldfinger, his acerbic director of research, whose constant needling frequently infuriates Chairman Boldt, who is a Federal judge from Tacoma...
...wage-price restraints will break down, and inflation will once more swallow up most of the economy's gains. But the risk has receded in the past few weeks. The Price Commission has taken a tough line not only on prices but also on medical costs and rents. AFL-CIO unions are giving the Commission some help by sending shoppers into stores to check on prices. The Pay Board has been so snarled by quarreling among its labor, business and public members that it has not yet even worked out a form on which employers and unions can report...