Word: bal
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Only weeks ago, crusty George Meany crowed at the AFL-CIO executive council in Bal Harbour, Fla., that "the climate is good" for labor. The boast made sense: labor had spent $8.2 million to help elect a heavily Democratic Congress, and union votes had given Jimmy Carter a big lift toward the White House. Meany and his aides set down a list of ambitious legislative goals, then waited for the pro-labor Government to do its stuff (TIME, March...
...organized labor, 1977 is a year of great expectations. That was the message that came out of the midwinter gathering of the AFL-CIO executive council in Bal Harbour, Fla., last week. Rarely in recent years had George Meany, the AFL-CIO's often flinty president, and his fellow leaders been more buoyant. After eight years of Republican Administrations, the unions can now look forward to dealing and wheedling not only with an intensely sympathetic Democratic Congress but also a Democratic President who is deeply indebted to labor for his election victory...
...major topic of conversation at the Bal Harbour meeting was this year's collective-bargaining calendar, which involves 5 million workers in such key industries as steel, aerospace, communications and coal mining. The consensus is that 1977 wage settlements could be hefty-at least as large as last year's average 8.3% increase for the first year of a contract. Moreover, greater emphasis than ever will be placed on job security...
...sultans of Big Labor, a perennial rite of winter is the annual meeting of the AFL-CIO's executive council in Bal Harbour, Fla., just north of Miami Beach. There, at the garish 15-story Americana Hotel, the heads of 34 AFL-CIO unions representing some 20 million workers-about 21% of U.S. wage earners-gather every February to talk strategy under the sun and in sybaritic splendor. TIME Correspondent Philip Taubman attended this year's eight-day meeting and filed this report...
...Wurf and the other union chiefs at the AFL-CIO meeting, the play seemed as earnest as the work. The labor leaders had converged on Bal Harbour with their customary large supporting casts. Teachers Union Chief Albert Shanker, for example, arrived with his wife and three children. Other union bosses brought along legions of aides, among them their legislative advisers, public relations assistants and political operatives, as well as a secretary...