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...recent AFL-CIO-sponsored poll of union members revealed that in 51% of working families, mothers and fathers work opposing shifts. This is one way around the child-care crunch, but the exhaustion and lack of familial connection of "ships passing in the night" parenting is hardly a solution. Parents working early and late shifts often turn to the neighbor network, sharing child-care duties with co-workers or plugging in to the tried and true low-tech child-care referral service found on bulletin boards at churches, pediatricians' offices and schools. But even when "the village" takes a hand...
...Clinton's 1992 and 1996 elections show, the death of liberalism--at the national level--is imminent. Although Gore temporarily appeased liberal support groups--especially the AFL-CIO, which provided him with the key endorsement--he will have to ditch ideas about eliminating the internal combustion engine if he wants to win in November, and continue the pragmatic "third-way" sought by his predecessor...
...Democrats as the party of labor hasn't been entirely forgotten. Indeed, while George W. Bush has firmly endorsed China's entry into the WTO; Vice President Gore, mindful of Senator Bradley's challenge from the left, has waffled on the issue, hoping to keep the AFL-CIO on board for his nomination by promising at one point to renegotiate the terms of the China deal struck by his administration...
This cycle is likely to tighten the political pincer movement in which the movement for strong U.S.-China relations has found itself. The AFL-CIO and other labor groups have been outspoken in their opposition to China's entry into the WTO, and have placed substantial pressure on presidential candidate and Vice President Al Gore '69 to change his stance. Meanwhile, the far right has focused on China's worsening human rights record; the State Department's annual human rights report used harsher terms to describe China's actions this year regarding political and religious freedoms than in any year...
...trying to show that Carey's bid was a "corrupt enterprise," the suit will seek to recover some $3 million in union funds spent as a result of the election. Trumka is alleged to have steered AFL-CIO funds to the Carey campaign; he took the Fifth when called before a congressional investigation into the scandal. Federal prosecutors have alleged the D.N.C. was also funneling money to Carey...