Word: cio
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...secret taping system was dramatically revealed early one afternoon at the Senate Watergate hearings in July 1973, Democrats rose in righteous wrath to assail the President. "It's an outrage," fumed House Speaker Carl Albert. "It's so fantastic as to be almost beyond belief," stormed AFL-CIO President George Meany. "A violation of privacy," snapped Nixon's defeated 1972 election opponent, George McGovern. And when Nixon's defenders suggested that he was only doing what John F. Kennedy had quietly practiced, Historian Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr., a Kennedy friend and onetime aide, found it "inconceivable...
Workers at Chi-Chi's restaurant ended the latest attempt by Local 26 of the AFL-CIO to organize Cambridge restaurant employees when they rejected the union's recent proposal by a three-to-one margin...
Many union leaders grumble that they are being unfairly called upon to fight a battle that Washington should be waging, and are demanding that the Administration take some action to curb the recession. AFL-CIO President Lane Kirkland last month blasted Reagan's economic program as "a hodgepodge of crank monetarism and bizarre macroeconomic nostrums," and urged the White House to take immediate steps to ease unemployment. Among the AFL-CIO'S recommendations: revive the emergency local public works program, budgeted at $6 billion in 1975 but not funded since then; restore CETA public service jobs; and create...
Employees at Chi-Chi's restaurant on Mass Ave will vote today on whether to unionize through Local 26 of the AFL-CIO, which represents Harvard's 500 dining hall workers...
...union representing Harvard's dining hall workers this week filed two unfair labor practice charges against the University with the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB), Local 26 of the AFL-CIO accused University labor officials of preventing the union's agents from investigating grievances and of trying to undermine the safety committee stipulated in Local 26's contract. The union's latest action represents a growing rift between Harvard and officials of Local...