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...waiters, waitresses, bartenders and busboys at Ferdinand's were fired Monday after they signed a petition naming Local 26 of the Hotel Restaurant and Institution Employees and Bartenders Union, AFL-CIO, as a representative for collective bargaining in response to the sudden firing of all 14 Ha'penny employees the week before. Ferdinand's and Ha'penny are part of the same corporation...
...next day, Ferdinand's employees held a meeting to discuss the firings and submitted to management a request for collective bargaining, naming Local 26 of the AFL-CIO Hotel Restaurant and Institution Employees and Bartenders Union as their bargaining agent...
...dominates wage negotiations. Companies in the past were often ready to give in to worker demands in order to keep their plants operating. But now with union leaders more concerned with job security for their members, talk of long strikes or costly wage settlements has virtually disappeared. Admits AFL-CIO Economist John Zalusky: "It looks like a tough year, the toughest in memory...
...York Teamster official was indicted for extorting funds from the company. Donovan's performance on the job has not redeemed him. He has failed to build bridges to organized labor, though other pro-business Labor Secretaries before him have managed to do so. He attended an AFL-CIO meeting ten months ago, but since then, complains the federation's president, Lane Kirkland, "I've heard from him only through the Federal Register," the weekly list of changes in Government rules. Many of those changes, such as the cutbacks in Occupational Safety and Health Administration programs...
Donovan has many supporters in the business community, which applauds his zeal for deregulation. Says John Tysse of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce: "He understands that his is a broader mandate than simply marching to the tune of the AFL-CIO." Nevertheless, in an Administration that suffers from poor relations with organized labor, much of the blame goes to Donovan, with...