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While hitting the elderly in the pocketbook, the Republicans hope to offer them a greater choice of medical plans, beyond traditional fee-for-service care and HMOS. Patients could direct government payments to provider-sponsored networks; or to plans created by large organizations like the AFL-CIO for their members; or to private insurance plans. In fact, if patients were to buy low-cost insurance that offered only catastrophic protection, the Republicans would allow them to bank the difference between their insurance premium and the average Medicare payment...
Lane Kirkland retires Tuesday as president of the AFL-CIO, leaving behind a 13.3 member-labor organization whose influence in Washington has been declining. In a reflection of that reduced clout, just last week three powerful unions within the AFL-CIO (representing autoworkers, steelworkers and machinists) announced the formation of a muscular new 2 million-memberunionof their...
Dissension erupted among AFL-CIO leaders when President Lane Kirkland announced he will retire on Aug. 1. Despite longtime expectations that deputy Thomas Donahue would inherit the office, an opposition ticket supported by 57% of the federation's membership will challenge...
Legendary AFL-CIO President Lane Kirkland, whom rivals had pressured for weeks to resign, said he would leave the 13.3-million-member labor federation Aug. 1 -- with a recommendation that his protege, executive secretary Thomas Donahue, succeed him. But powerful dissidents in the flagging organization are not backing his choice. "Handovers like that are dinosaurs," saysTIME Detroit bureau chief William McWhirter. "Nobody in the labor movement is in the mood to sleep through this. They want a generational shift." The battle parallels the recent upheaval in the Teamsters union, in which one-time radicals rolled over an outgoing leader...
LANE KIRKLAND Eleven powerful AFL-CIO unions tell their chief to pack his bags...