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...first few months of his presidency, Jimmy Carter was viewed with fond and hopeful pride by the leaders of organized labor, who felt they had been decisive in his victory at the polls. "We were in a state of euphoria," recalls Al Zack, AFL-CIO spokesman and a confidant of Labor Chief George Meany. "We had a wish list that was a mile long." But then the disappointments began. Carter and Meany clashed over minimum wage, unemployment, and Social Security legislation. Meany found so many black marks on his list that he added them up and gave Carter a grade...
...corporate withdrawal, I think it is fair to say that we should respect their perceptions. When the United Nations General Assembly, the World Council of Churches, the NAACP, the Pan-Africanist Congress, the National Congress of South Africa, the Black Consciousness movement, the Congressional Black Caucus, the AFL-CIO and so many, many others say "withdraw," then I wonder: upon what do we base our supposedly "moral" decision to stay...
...textile workers union and the rest of the AFL-CIO are waging battles on four other fronts in addition to the boycott. The union is still very active in the mill towns of the South. They continue to help the workers in their efforts to organize more plants for certification elections and to carry on negotiations in the seven plants where representation has been won. Both of these duties are incredibly difficult due to the harassment and stalling by Stevens, but it is in this area that success on all fronts will become evident...
...remaining battlefield is Congress. The AFL-CIO is supporting a labor law reform act. The most important parts of this act would not make new rules, but just increase penalties for violations of existing labor laws. Violations such as Stevens has perpetrated in the past will only cease when the laws make them unprofitable...
...yesterday's press conference, Local 925 of the Service Employees International Union, AFL-CIO, announced that it would support King's legislation, stating that the union has met with "undue delays and other union-busting ploys...