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...Congress to hold manufacturers liable for their contractors' labor violations, and a presidential task force on sweatshops will soon release its report. Will Guess's hard-nosed exodus blunt efforts to improve the plight of U.S. garmentworkers? Not likely. "We're not going to roll over and play dead," AFL-CIO president John Sweeney says. But then again, neither is Guess...
More than 50 Yale students were arrested this week along with Connecticut Secretary of State Miles Rapoport and AFL-CIO President John Sweeney during a protest supporting two labor unions engaged in a contract dispute with Yale University...
Finally, a resurgent organized labor movement demonstrated that it still has relevance and electoral power. The AFL-CIO--although outspent by corporate PACs by a margin of about four-to-one--produced a nationwide ad campaign that framed many of the crucial issues of the 1996 election and put Republicans on the defensive for their attacks on crucial domestic programs such as Medicare and student aid. Labor was most powerful here in Massachusetts. Working men and women stood up for a pro-labor Senator, John Kerry, and defeated a formidable Republican candidate in Gov. Bill Weld. Labor was also crucial...
...major powers outside the formal party organizations seem more or less to have fought each other to a draw. The newly militant AFL-CIO poured some $35 million into radio and TV ads denouncing Republicans for a variety of sins, above all attempting to reduce projected Medicare spending $270 billion. The union federation's efforts were instrumental in defeating sophomore Blute in Massachusetts and several G.O.P. freshmen, including David Funderburk, a disciple of Senator Jesse Helms (who held his own seat) in North Carolina. In other districts, however, AFL-CIO spending backfired by becoming a major issue. The union federation...
...Christian Coalition played somewhat the same role on the right that the AFL-CIO did on the left, but in very different fashion. While the union federation began its televised attacks on Republicans early, the coalition held its fire until the very end, apparently trying--successfully--to fly below the radar of suspicious Democrats. Two days before the election, however, coalition volunteers distributed what they said were 45 million "voter guides" at 125,000 churches around the country. Though the guides, like the AFL-CIO ads, did not directly oppose or support any candidate, they gave Democrats a consistent hammering...