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...simple humanitarianism that allows workers time for adjustment to a blow that would otherwise shatter their lives. Says Ohio Senator Howard Metzenbaum: "It's time to mandate a little human decency." But many companies already give notice voluntarily or shut down a plant in stages. The AFL-CIO, which depends on the Labor Department for information, has trouble proving its case through either hard numbers or vivid anecdotes...
January 1987: After 18 months of independent organizing with virtually no funds, HUCTW receives national backing when it affiliates with the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees (AFSCME). AFSCME, the largest union in the AFL-CIO, vows to give HUCTW as much support as it needs to win the election and contributes $500,000 to the campaign right...
...Donald Rumsfeld, who served as Defense Secretary under President Gerald Ford; and Dean Kleckner, president of the American Farm Bureau Federation. The Democratic leaders of the House and Senate chose their own batch of household names: Chrysler Chairman Lee Iacocca; Investment Banker Felix Rohatyn; Lane Kirkland, president of the AFL- CIO; and Robert Strauss, former chairman of the Democratic National Committee. Congressional Democrats will be represented by Moynihan and House Budget Committee Chairman William H. Gray...
...provoked ridicule from Democratic critics. Congressman Richard Gephardt of Missouri, a champion of fair trade and a presidential candidate, labeled Reagan's argument "mush." Said he: "The trade deficit is an indication that we're not winning our share of the world economy." Rudolph Oswald, chief economist of the AFL-CIO, agreed. "Reagan must have been reading Alice in Wonderland rather than the U.S. trade figures. He's got everything upside down...
...contracts of the 3600 clerical and maintenance unions, AFL-CIO locals 34 and 35, are due to expire on January...