Word: cio
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...ANGELES: Looking for friends at the AFL-CIO?s boisterous executive council winter meeting, Al Gore and Dick Gephardt tried out some of the rhetoric they are polishing for their own expected presidential campaigns three years from now. "This was really the first primary," says TIME's James Carney. "Gore is definitely running, and while Gephardt stopped short of admitting it, he is certainly Gore's leading competition." It was a tough crowd. Both Democrats tried to assuage union concerns that welfare reform will flood the job market with low-paid, non-union labor, hence further undermining organized labor. While...
...ANGELES: Looking for friends at the AFL-CIO?s boisterous executive council winter meeting, Al Gore and Dick Gephardt tried out some of the rhetoric they are polishing for their own expected presidential campaigns three years from now. "This was really the first primary," says TIME's James Carney. "Gore is definitely running, and while Gephardt stopped short of admitting it, he is certainly Gore's leading competition." It was a tough crowd. Both Democrats tried to assuage union concerns that welfare reform will flood the job market with low-paid, non-union labor, hence further undermining organized labor. While...
Most Americans don't realize it, but the race for the Democratic presidential nomination in 2000 begins next week. That's when the AFL-CIO, the nation's largest labor union and the Democrats' biggest organized constituency, gathers for its annual conference. The featured entertainment: back-to-back speeches on Feb. 18 by Vice President Gore and House Democratic leader Dick Gephardt, respectively, the heir apparent and the would-be spoiler in the coming battle to succeed Bill Clinton...
...President's choice of Colorado Governor Roy Romer as the new party chairman. Bowles promised he would meet with them regularly from now on. But no amount of cajoling from the White House will keep Gephardt from laying more groundwork for a presidential run. Just days before the AFL-CIO conference, he plans to cross the border into Mexico to highlight, as an aide says, "the unmet promise of NAFTA," the 1993 trade agreement that Gore publicly backed and the unions, joined by Gephardt, ardently opposed. Gephardt has also hired a new deputy chief of staff, David Plouffe...
Clinton has already fought for Herman once. AFL-CIO chief John Sweeney opposed her nomination last fall, favoring former Pennsylvania Senator Harris Wofford instead. Jesse Jackson personally lobbied Sweeney on Herman's behalf, but that isn't what changed the labor chief's mind; after a bruising role in getting Clinton re-elected, Sweeney simply wasn't in the mood for a fight. Now that Herman faces confirmation trouble, Clinton has turned to Washington lobbyists Michael Berman and Patrick Griffin to help shepherd her nomination...