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...question is, however, how will everyone else fare, and is that important? Privatization pushers say that even the poor will be better off under a private system. Opponents like the AFLCIO say a private system would not only leave low-wage workers unprotected, but would violate a basic principle of the welfare state, releasing the wealthy from any obligation help support lower-wage workers...
John S. Laughlin, assistant to the president of the Massachusetts AFLCIO, said union representatives decided to call off the protest because they had arranged talks between Sheldon Cohen, owner of Out of Town News, and the Newspaper Guild, one of the nine unions involved in the Daily News strike...
...There is no question that the intimidation of the [rebels] is working," said William Doherty, an AFLCIO official on the team...
...unions will begin the demonstration at 11a.m. next to the Weeks Footbridge. Unionrepresentatives said there will be picket signs,an aerial banner flying over the Charles, andseveral speakers from the AFLCIO and the airlineunions. Jackson is scheduled to speak at noon...
...COINCIDENCE that Domenic M. Bozzotto, leader of AFLCIO Local 26, which represents Boston's hotel and restaurant employees and also Harvard's dining hall workers, played tour guide to Chavez and posed with him whenever he could. The two are much alike in outlook, if not in stature. Bozzotto is very political, very controversial, very visible, and he generally gets good contracts; hence his popularity among jthe workforce was reform candidate ub co-union, he believes in solidarity media love...