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...typical of contract negotiations that go on in hundreds of plants and offices across the U.S. every year. Except for one thing: this labor showdown happened to take place at the citadel of organized labor in the U.S., AFL-CIO headquarters in Washington, where the management is none other than George Meany-Mr. Union himself...
...trouble began in October with the expiration of contracts that had covered the seven unions representing the AFL-CIO's office and organizing staffs, 550 employees in all. The AFL-CIO's headquarters staffers are fairly well paid -writers, for example, make what they might at Baltimore or Washington newspapers-but bargaining for new contracts got mired in the matter of extending cost of living clauses. As union leaders, AFL-CIO officials have adamantly insisted that American workers should have such clauses as protection against inflation. But as employers, staffers began to wonder, did AFL-CIO executives feel...
Within hours management knuckled under and restored the pay boost. "Company" Spokesman Al Zack said it was all a mistake: the AFL-CIO's payroll department had not realized that the expired contracts required that all provisions, including the cost of living raises, be extended until a new agreement was initialed. Not all of the workers believed that explanation. Said one: "They wanted to kill the cost of living clause, in effect giving...
...Conference of Mayors said the plan did not do enough to help cities. The AFL-CIO, led by George Meany, got downright caustic. It adopted a statement calling the program "a retreat from the goals which we understand President-elect Carter to have set during last year's election campaign." The goal the council had in mind was cutting unemployment by 1½ percentage points this year; to do that, the labor leaders want a stimulus of as much as $30 billion in 1977 alone, with most of the money going directly to federal job programs. Most surprising...
...crucial area Fraser might well subvert Reuther's legacy. In 1968 Reuther paraded his union out of the AFL-CIO, charging that the federation had become too conservative. Now the U.A.W. is tiptoeing toward reaffiliation. There are major stumbling blocks-the biggest is just how much autonomy the auto union could retain-but Fraser might conceivably preside over a reconciliation. If that happens, he could some day become a formidable contender for the top job at the AFL-CIO...