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Crowing "I always get two thirds," AFL-CIO president John Sweeney on Wednesday delivered to Al Gore the endorsement he coveted, that of Big Labor. "More than any other national leader," the resolution shoved through by Sweeney read, "Al Gore has used the power of his office to defend the freedom of workers to choose a union, free from interference by their employers." For Gore, who?ll get a stump-thumping grassroots organization that his excitement-deprived campaign sorely needs ?- and one that has $40 million to spend ?- the endorsement couldn?t have come at a better time...
...citing southern-fried wisdom about weighing one?s pig before wrapping it. Which hardly means they were Bradley backers ? just that they wanted to soak Gore for a few more concessions before climbing aboard. In fact, what impressed Branegan was how quietly ?- and quickly ? the rest of the AFL-CIO went along. "It seems to be a very enlightened group," he says. "Both Bradley and Gore are free-traders ? Gore?s biggest moment was defending NAFTA against Perot ? and there hasn?t been a word about that." Of course, George W. Bush?s own dad was the father of NAFTA...
...year gives 2,000 Massachusetts grade school youngsters a chance to learn about and see colleges. In 1991, when Kids to College began, there were about 20 such programs in the country. Today, she says, there are more than 1,000, including ones sponsored by Exxon and the AFL-CIO...
DIED. LANE KIRKLAND, 77, president of the AFL-CIO from 1979 to 1995; of lung cancer; in Washington. As head of the federation, Kirkland fought to sustain the unions' waning power, in part by bringing renegades such as the U.A.W. and the Teamsters back into the fold. "All sinners belong in the church," he said...
...want to make sure there isn't a two-tier workforce," says Chris Owens, assistant director for public policy at the AFL-CIO, which is pushing a bill in Congress to make it harder to classify full-timers as independent contractors. On any given day, there are about 3 million temporary workers...