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JOSEPH LANE KIRKLAND, 52, secretary-treasurer of the AFL-CIO and President George Meany's right-hand man. Kirkland is known in labor circles as a skillful behind-the-scenes negotiator...
...begins to talk about District 65, telling the story of its secession from the AFL-CIO after quarrels over the Indochina war and minority representation in the union. "We advocated changes," he says, "and in 1968 we decided that no longer in good conscience could we continue in a union we so sharply disagreed with...
...organized in a traditional way," Ron Burns, a member of the core committee, says. "The traditional way is to talk to people, use (union membership) cards, and build momentum. That's the AFL-CIO...
...arguing that it would have hampered domestic coal production "when the nation can ill afford significant losses from this critical energy source." Though his veto was anticipated, it is sure to be unpopular. The strip-mining bill was supported by environmentalists, Ford's own Interior Department, the AFL-CIO, the United Mine Workers, United Auto Workers and farm and ranch organizations. It was even backed by a few big coal companies that were anxious to have some law-any law-enacted to clear up the uncertainty that has clouded their future in strip mining. Congressional advocates of the bill...
...employees' representative association--which is an in-house union, rather than an AFL-CIO affiliated one like the trades council--got a 7.6 per cent pay hike and 15 cents an hour extra for evening and night shift work in its new one-year contract...