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What has the unions' backs up is a policy of inflation control that they consider discriminatory. Asserting that the Administration continues to hold wage boosts within guidelines while allowing corporate profits and interest rates to rise unchecked, the AFL-CIO's executive council said last week that it is no longer "reasonable to expect the trade union movement to counsel moderation of wage increases." Just how immoderate the big unions-which include the electrical workers, transport workers, machinists and auto workers-will be when their turns come up in later months remains to be seen...
...meetings of the AFL-CIO executive council, says one insider, the vote usually ranges from 25-to-l to 34-to-l, depending on how many other union chiefs are present to vote down Jerry Wurf. While that may be an exaggeration, the 54-year-old Wurf, head of the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees, is certainly a maverick in the stolid hierarchy of organized labor. He has bucked the AFL-CIO high command on such issues as the 1972 election (Wurf was strong for George McGovern, while the federation observed a pro-Nixon neutrality...
Union men already are vocally angry about the economic situation. Last week AFL-CIO Chief George Meany charged the Administration with using "the big-lie technique" to cover its economic bumbling. Meany singled out a New York Times article signed by Budget Director Roy Ash, which offers a series of glowing statistics and assertions...
This month Chavez will visit AFL-CIO headquarters to ask the labor federation's support for a new nationwide grape boycott. It will be much harder to popularize, though, than the boycott that became a flaming liberal cause toward the end of the '60s. Chavez this time cannot ask consumers to shun all grapes, only Teamster-picked ones, and shoppers have little way of telling which those are. Chavez has strong verbal support from the AFL-CIO, which booted the Teamsters out 15 years ago; but as yet he has received no federation money -and his union...
...costs soared at an annual rate of 8.8%, more than triple the 2.5% figure that Nixon has set as a goal. Retail food prices leaped 3.2% in March alone, the biggest rise since record-keeping began in 1952. The price surge all but ended the second honeymoon between AFL-CIO Chief George Meany and the White House. Said Meany: "In his Inaugural Address in January, the President advised Americans to help themselves. It is obvious that this is what unions are going to be forced to do at the bargaining table...