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...under fierce competitive pressure from abroad and organized labor feeling the same crunch, what better time for a mail-order catalog of goods made by unionized American hands? Just such an order book will be available next week on a trial basis to some 100,000 members of the AFL-CIO. Created by Marc Schechtman, 35, general manager of a union shopping distributor in Fairfield, Iowa, the Union Label Shopper lists some 45 brand- name products, ranging from Dingo boots to West Bend appliances to ProctorSilex cookware, all at about 10% off store prices...
When Joseph P. Kennedy II, the Democratic candidate for the 8th congressional district, addressed an AFL-CIO convention in Boston on Thursday, one union official urged members not to just "lay back" as the general election drew near...
Since Walter Reuther's United Automobile Workers walked out in 1968, no union has left the AFL-CIO. But now the largest U.S. railroad union, the 90,000- member United Transportation Union, has decided to uncouple itself from the national labor federation. One of the main reasons for the split is that an AFL-CIO official, Robert Georgine, became vice chairman of the Alliance for Coal and Competitive Transportation, a lobbying group that supports legislation to permit coal-slurry pipelines. Railroad workers oppose the pipelines because they would take coal-hauling business away from trains...
...reaction of organized labor to antidrug efforts has been mixed. Unions generally support corporate drug-rehabilitation programs, but opposition to urinalysis is growing. Says Douglas Maguire, director of the labor assistance program for the Los Angeles County Federation of Labor, AFL-CIO: "Labor is not supporting testing in the workplace. As part of a physical exam for new employees, it is acceptable, but otherwise there are problems of violating civil rights." Some unions also fight against firings of workers with drug problems. Rockwell's Frankel quit as the company's medical director in 1983 partly because, he says, management repeatedly...
Unfortunately, it is struggling without the tactical support of its own national unions and the AFL-CIO. The national union, whose president is William Wynn, opposes P-9's strategy. Last week Lane Kirkland, president of the AFL-CIO, announced that the industry-wide union would not endorse the actions of P-9. In addition to the national union, the AFL-CIO, and of course the Hormel company, the small Austin union has made another eneme--the National Guard, which in January cleared the way for workers hired to replace the strikers...