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...just California is at stake. In the 1996 election, the AFL-CIO spent $35 million nationally, most of it in ways that favored Democrats. Now the G.O.P., which tried and failed two years ago to get a bill nearly identical to Prop. 226 through Congress, is hoping that 226 will propel the dues-permission idea across the U.S. At least eight states are considering the same kind of ballot measure. Supporters of 226 say it's a fairness issue. Why should union members have to finance campaigns for candidates or ideas that the workers may not support? In recent years...
Around the U.S., labor and Democrats are taking Prop. 226 very seriously. Bill Clinton has spoken against it. Party leaders are worried that labor's focus on 226 is claiming money that would otherwise go to Democrats in this year's midterm congressional elections. The AFL-CIO has pledged to raise $13 million to fight the initiative. That's nearly half the $28 million it plans to spend on the entire midterm campaign this fall. But if 226 succeeds, the unions may have a lot less to spend in the future...
DIED. WILLIAM ("BILLY") SULLIVAN, 86, scrappy co-founder of the AFL; in Atlantis, Fla. The NFL didn't want Sullivan, who was hardly a high-stakes player as president of a fuel-delivery company, so he cobbled together $25,000 to buy an AFL franchise, the Boston Patriots, in 1959. In 1988 he unloaded his investment for more than $80 million...
SEIU is the organization handling the petition on behalf of the Red Cross employees. It is under the auspices of the National AFL-CIO, an umbrella organization representing over 400,000 American workers...
...fact, Carey pollsters found last year that many rank-and-file members felt no better off under Carey than under mob-linked Teamsters bosses. Out of friends and desperate for cash, Carey turned to AFL-CIO leaders, who owed him a favor for his support of the 1995 election of AFL-CIO president John Sweeney...