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Flynn, who has mulled a gubernatorial bid since he left the state last July, told two state labor union officials last week at an AFL-CIO conference in Florida that he had made up his mind to become a candidate, the Globe reported...
...Ronald Reagan fired more than 11,000 striking members of the Professional Air Traffic Controllers Organization in 1981, which made many other workers afraid to strike. "After Patco we felt we were looking down a double-barreled shotgun at the wrong end," says Joe Gunn, president of the Texas AFL-CIO. "Those days are over...
...presidency with a 234-200 vote in the House for the North American Free Trade Agreement, Bill Clinton was already lining up allies for future battles. As Air Force One carried him to Seattle for a meeting with 13 Asian and Pacific leaders, he called Lane Kirkland of the AFL-CIO to say their bitter differences on the trade pact should not prevent them from joining forces on health-care reform and worker- retraining plans. He called Dan Rostenkowski and urged the House Ways and Means Committee chairman to push the languishing jobless-benefits bill. From the White House, Hillary...
Clinton had talked about cutting short his California trip, but concluded that it would look panicky. In a speech to the AFL-CIO in San Francisco and another in Los Angeles at a $1,000-a-plate Democratic Party fund raiser, he said little about Somalia or Russia either. As late as Wednesday, though, Clinton officiated at a ceremony in the East Room of the White House to mark the signing of a bill allowing federal employees to participate in political campaigns. "This is a very happy day for me," he remarked -- as public reaction to the ghastly pictures from...
Otherwise, interest-group reaction ranges from skeptical to horrified. The AFL-CIO is afraid that union members who accepted smaller wage increases as the price of negotiating health benefits more generous than the Administration's basic package will have those scaled down too, or be forced to pay extra for them; the White House so far has failed to reassure the unionists. Small businesses that provide scanty or no coverage for their workers are terrified that they will be forced to pay huge sums -- as much as $60 billion a year, by one estimate -- to bring benefits...