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...part, the UAW seems to be counting on a new friend in Washington. "During the eight years George W. Bush was in the White House, (AFL-CIO) President John Sweeney wasn't invited to the White House once," Gettelfinger notes. Now, he says, "You just can't believe the change in Washington...
...Super Bowl got its name: "If Commissioner [Pete] Rozelle, the acknowledged father of the Super Bowl, had his way, it would have been called the AFL-NFL Championship Game, which isn't so much a name as a description. Briefly, there was some sentiment in favor of The Big One, which, at best, sounds like something on a fast-food chain's menu. Then [Kansas City Chiefs owner] Lamar Hunt got into the picture... Around the time of the merger negotiations, Hunt saw his son and daughter playing with a new ball from Wham-O that was almost impossibly bouncy...
...winter. For the first time in decades, a President will enter office at the spearhead of a social movement he created. The exact size can be measured in various ways. He controls a 13 million-name e-mail list, which is nearly the size of the NRA and the AFL-CIO combined. Three million people have given him money; 2 million have created profiles on Obama's social-networking site. More than 1.2 million volunteered for the campaign, which has trained about 20,000 in the business of community organizing...
...Christmas. With proper medical attention a bedrock need, Challenger says a "wide swath of companies" have a need for physical therapists, nurses, medical records technologists and digital imaging specialists. Healthcare is also the industry showing the most growth in unionization, says Gordon Pavey, director of collective bargaining for the AFL...
...vote for socialism or democracy?" pipe fitter Danny McIntyre, 37, playfully asked a reporter at a nearby gas station after he voted. He said 12 of the 13 union workers in his shop were voting for McCain - despite AFL-CIO efforts to convince them otherwise. This is about taxes, he said, not race. "The guys we work with - they'd vote for Condoleezza Rice if she were on the ticket. They're pro-America." - By Karen Ball / Kansas City