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...AFL-CIO set up an Organizing Institute to train recruiters, and the next year graduated 40; this year it expects to send out 120. Maria Naranjo, 25, a recent graduate of the institute, figures she works from 10 a.m. to as late as 11:30 p.m. trying to sign up janitors in Washington for the Service Employees' International Union. That's weekdays in the buildings; on weekends she calls on the janitors at home. The union now represents janitors in 45% of downtown buildings, vs. only 19% a year ago. But the gains are threatened by building owners...
...successful fight to ratify the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA), Clinton alienated some to the Democratic party's biggest supporters by going head to head against the labor unions. The AFL-CIO donated $1 million to the election coffers of the Democratic National Party and threatened to withhold support to any Democrat, including the President, who supported the NAFTA treaty...
Even at that level, however, some high-paid union members with working spouses would be hit. It is perhaps a measure of organized labor's success -- at least for the shrunken ranks of its members -- that David Saltz, an AFL- CIO spokesman, protests that "just because something hurts upper-income people, that doesn't make it progressive...
Good policy, but not good politics -- especially not by the lights of labor- union members, who have used the tax subsidy to negotiate some of the most expensive health benefits in America. When union bosses, led by AFL-CIO president Lane Kirkland, got wind that the White House was even discussing limits on the tax subsidy for health insurance, they met privately with Mrs. Clinton and warned her that labor's support for health reform -- deemed essential by the Democrats -- was at risk. The First Lady then sent word to her erstwhile reformers: There's no sense even talking about...
Just last month, Flynn reportedly told two state labor union officials at an AFL-CIO conference in Florida that he had made up his mind to become a gubernatorial candidate, according to The Boston Globe...