Word: cio
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...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...
...credit, Kirk has made some attempts at substantiative change since he took over the DNC--primarily in attacking the interest-group image. He has eliminated all minority caucuses besides the women's caucus, urged interest-group leaders (especially Lane Kirkland of the AFL-CIO) not to endorse candidates early in the campaign, abolished midterm conferences, and set an early deadline for completion of the work of the Fairness Commission, which is investigating the way convention delegates are chosen. These changes are intended not only to present a "unified" party to the American public in 1988, but also to move that...
...Coors denied civil rights. Coors allowed the Ku Klux Klan to meet on his property. The profit of Coors works against working men and working women in this country," said Domenic Bozzotto, President of Hotel and Restaurant Union Local 26, AFL-CIO...
Yale clerical and technical workers began organizing in 1968, but it was not for another 15 years and three NLRB elections later that AFL-CIO Local 34 gained official ratification. To get NLRB approval, a union must receive a majority vote from its worker constituency in a sanctioned election. The NLRB, which was formed during Franklin D. Roosevelt's '04 New Deal era, requires a petition with 30 percent of the worker's signatures before it will sponsor an election...