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...President Clinton isn't making friends in the AFL-CIO by arguing his free-trade case to the union (TIME Daily...
...presidential privilege that makes trade agreements easier to negotiate and simpler to get through Congress ? who either like it or strike it, but can't make changes ? and Big Labor absolutely hates it. So when Clinton took the stage in Pittsburgh after a terse introduction by AFL-CIO President John Sweeney, he started with the sugar: Campaign finance reform. Youth smoking. The 21st century (with no bridges...
...Monday, AFL-CIO head John Sweeney begged congressmen to make the union stop spending money on them, calling for public funding of federal campaigns and limits on campaign contributions. Wednesday, President Clinton goes to Pittsburgh to address the union federation that spent an estimated $119 million on political activity in the 1996 elections...
...Gore tells the AFL-CIO the U.S. will punish businesses that interfere in union elections (Reuters...
...AFL-CIO has upped its funding for membership drives from 4% to 30% of its budget. The Teamsters are taking on nonunion Federal Express and Overnite Transportation, the largest group of unorganized truckers in the nation. Labor watchers say that for the unions to thrive, they need to shift their recruitment focus to the new information economy and away from the old manual one. But the union's targets still stress the less skilled end of the workers' spectrum--apple pickers in Washington state, hotel workers in Las Vegas. Whether these workers can provide a replacement for the iron...