Word: cio
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Otherwise, interest-group reaction ranges from skeptical to horrified. The AFL-CIO is afraid that union members who accepted smaller wage increases as the price of negotiating health benefits more generous than the Administration's basic package will have those scaled down too, or be forced to pay extra for them; the White House so far has failed to reassure the unionists. Small businesses that provide scanty or no coverage for their workers are terrified that they will be forced to pay huge sums -- as much as $60 billion a year, by one estimate -- to bring benefits...
Earlier this year, Figueroa filed complaints with the Massachusetts Commission Against Discrimination and the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission charging both Harvard and his union, Local 254 of the AFL-CIO, with discrimination. Both union and Harvard officials have denied the charges...
...February interview, McCombe accused police department management with engaging in a "pattern of retaliation" against guards who accused their supervisors of discriminatory practices. Representatives of the Local 254 AFL-CIO union told guards during Friday's meeting that they were gathering evidence for a formal investigation of McCombe's conduct as a union steward...
...executive board of the Local 254 AFL-CIO union, which represents Harvard guards, called the meeting this week in response to a petition signed by 25 of Harvard's 100 guards. Two guards familiar with the petition said that four of the union's five stewards--all but McCombe--were among the signees...
...union membership to 16% of the work force, the lowest in 50 years? Plenty, say labor leaders: unfriendly Administrations have enabled employers to stall off union- representation elections for years and even break strikes. Secretary of Labor Robert Reich now proposes to change all that. Meeting with the AFL-CIO executive council in Bal Harbour, Florida, Reich repledged Bill Clinton's support for a law to prohibit employers from hiring permanent replacements for striking workers (the certainty of a George Bush veto long kept the Democratic majorities in Congress from even trying to pass such a law). Further, said Reich...