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...clarified” or “solidified” ideas they already had by bringing the issue out into the open. And here may be one of PSLM’s main failures. While they reached the heights of publicity, grabbed the support of top political figures like AFL-CIO President John Sweeney and Massachusetts senators Kerry and Kennedy, and secured an alliance with unions, student opinion is still divided. Only one student FM spoke to said she was swayed in favor of a living wage by the sit-in.The PSLM has definitely raised awareness about the living wage...
...Missouri), ordinarily one of Bush’s main adversaries, told CNN’s John King, “I think the president, the vice president, secretary of state, are undertaking a very complicated, and, frankly, fitting type of response to this.” Ultra-liberal AFL-CIO President John J. Sweeney has also voiced his support for Bush, and he openly backed any U.S. military retaliation that might take place. The magnitude and degree of positive responses from those normally critical of the administration have been unbelievable. Conservative talk-show host Rush Limbaugh noted...
Both candidates are doing their best to appear gentlemanly. As colleagues at WLWT, they occasionally anchored together. But when they shared the stage last week at a forum sponsored by the AFL-CIO, they sat at opposite ends of a 15-ft.-long table. The amenities of the TV station were gone. The candidates had to speak above the whine of the air conditioner; the microphones squealed...
...Institute at Hamline University School of Law in Saint Paul, Minnesota, says some skepticism is always handy when analyzing this kind of potentially loaded data. Earlier this month, the American Enterprise Institute, a conservative organization, also published a report on employee attitudes, one that looks very different from the AFL-CIO release. "The AEI report shows that workers continue to be very satisfied with their work and their employers," says Larson. "And the AFL-CIO study says exactly the opposite. So you have to wonder who these organizations are talking to, and whether they?re asking leading questions...
...other hand, says Larson, the AFL-CIO report does point to certain dire trends that should not (and cannot) be dismissed out of hand. First, the study indicates there?s a 10 percent increase in perception among employees that employers have too much power. "People are really just learning how vulnerable workers are under current employment law," Larson says. "Interestingly for the AFL-CIO, one of the reasons union membership has declined so dramatically is that the union representatives were unable to communicate that vulnerability, and workers saw no reason to invest in unions...