Word: cio
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...President Clinton isn't making friends in the AFL-CIO by arguing his free-trade case to the union (TIME Daily...
...Monday, AFL-CIO head John Sweeney begged congressmen to make the union stop spending money on them, calling for public funding of federal campaigns and limits on campaign contributions. Wednesday, President Clinton goes to Pittsburgh to address the union federation that spent an estimated $119 million on political activity in the 1996 elections...
...Gore tells the AFL-CIO the U.S. will punish businesses that interfere in union elections (Reuters...
...with the public impact of UPS. President Clinton averted a potential strike by Amtrak workers last week. The United Food and Commercial Workers, representing 44,000 supermarket workers in Northern California, has a contract expiring in February. "UPS was important," says David Smith, public-policy director for the AFL-CIO, "but it doesn't make any of these negotiations a walk in the park...
...CIO has upped its funding for membership drives from 4% to 30% of its budget. The Teamsters are taking on nonunion Federal Express and Overnite Transportation, the largest group of unorganized truckers in the nation. Labor watchers say that for the unions to thrive, they need to shift their recruitment focus to the new information economy and away from the old manual one. But the union's targets still stress the less skilled end of the workers' spectrum--apple pickers in Washington state, hotel workers in Las Vegas. Whether these workers can provide a replacement for the iron and steel...