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Labor unions are pushing industrial policy with all their political power. Says Howard Samuel, president of the industrial-union department of the AFL-CIO: "The high unemployment rates rocking this nation and the staggering inroads that imports continue to make in our domestic markets have created a sense of great urgency for a national industrial policy." Growing numbers of business executives, particularly those whose companies are most threatened by foreign competitors, are taking up the cause. Says Chrysler Chairman Lee Iacocca: "Industrial policy is not just a Democratic ploy...
...Anchor Hocking, and W.R. Timken Jr. of Timken Co., it is also supported by the rank-and-file members of some labor unions. Leading the opposition is John Mahaney, the Republican president of the Ohio Council of Retail Merchants, who counts the Ohio Education Association and the state AFL-CIO on his side and who hopes to raise $2 million to fight the repeal. Explains State Senator Richard Pfeiffer: "The effects of Proposition 13 are coming home to roost in California, and if the repeal passes, they will eventually come home to roost in Ohio...
...capital. This is not new for us." Indeed, although the first March on Washington attracted the biggest crowd ever assembled in the city up to that time, it has since been surpassed by several events, including the 1969 Moratorium on the Viet Nam War (300,000) and the AFL-CIO's 1981 Solidarity Day rally (260,000). But it was not the size of the crowd the first time that mattered so much as the force of King's vision. It seared the American consciousness with an impact that almost no one foresaw. Arriving in Washington during...
...instructions on how to climb a ladder ("Begin by facing the ladder"). President Reagan has backed away from his goal of dismantling OSHA, but he has checked its zeal. "They've succeeded in gutting enforcement," charges Peg Seminario, associate director of health and safety for the AFL-CIO. Between 1980 and 1982, OSHA reduced its workplace inspections by 17%, follow-up inspections by 87%, citations for willful violations by 91% and penalties...
...when she was pregnant with him and was only dissuaded by her minister. Jackson has begun stressing that although he is morally opposed to abortion, he believes that the law should allow a woman free choice. Nevertheless, women have not yet rallied to his cause. Neither has labor. The AFL-CIO decided last week to make its endorsement earlier than planned, and is now set to throw its support behind Mondale at its October convention. Even a labor member of the black leadership family made it clear that he would be supporting the union's candidate rather than anyone fielded...