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...spokesman for Deak-Perera said an official of the company would meet in private with a representative of the organization only on condition the protests cease Domenic M. Bozzotto, president of AFLCIO Local 26, which represents Harvard food service workers said that only a phone conversation had been offered, and that his group had decided to rejected he offer...
...pleasant memory, a film history for the United Auto Workers to underwrite. Right--except that the mills in Lawrence are empty for a reason: everyone went down South, where there are no unions, only brown lung, bad money, and the "right to work." Sure--except the AFLCIO, the Teamsters and the rest have become more toadyish than ever, barely squawking when plants close down, doing nothing when presidents decide to put the lower class on welfare so the middle class won't have to suffer inflation. Lane Kirkland, the new George Meany, collects art. Doug Fraser, UAW, sits...
President Carter claimed at the recent AFLCIO convention (11/15/79) that "We have done nothing for which any administration need apologize." Does President Carter fail to recall that in 1953, the popular government of Dr. Mossadegh was overthrown in a bloody coup d'etat orchestrated by the American administration through the Central Intelligence Agency? Has he forgotten that on June 5th, 1962, more than 10,000 innocent people were shot to death by the American-advised Iranian army? Does he not remember congratulating the Shah on the morning after Black Friday, September 8th, 1977, when the Shah's army shot down...
...industry lobbies which are opposed to cost containment legislation simply in the interest of their own profits. Local groups that see Medicaid consuming larger and larger percentages of their budgets are unfortunately also usually opposed to large, federally-funded projects that aim at comprehensive health care coverage. And the AFLCIO, which supported the Kennedy-Corman bill, unfortunately represents people who are employed and who are already covered by good health plans...
Granum mentions the lunch that Carter will have in about an hour with George Meany and a platoon of angry labor leaders. He notes that the AFLCIO'S No. 2 man, Lane Kirkland- who in a blistering address the day before charged Carter with failing to keep his promises to the "working people"-has said labor would be willing to support the Administration's tax-reduction proposals in return for the President's backing of a comprehensive labor-reform law. "How should we respond in public to Kirkland's remarks?" Granum asks...