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...roadblocks to the nomination of Alexis Herman as Labor Secretary to punish the Administration for saying it would weigh the friendliness of companies toward unions in awarding federal contracts. It was Gore who made the case for this approach in a speech last Monday to the AFL-CIO's building and construction unions. There was little new in his announcement, but it was strident enough to bring a standing ovation from the unionists and a fit of pique from the Republicans...
...taking jobs away from low-income union workers, and applauded the new proposal to meet the welfare goals by placing the workers in federal jobs. "The devil is in the details, and we'll look at the details closely," said David Smith, public policy director for the AFL-CIO. "But it seems to be a step in the right direction." While Clinton?s initiative takes the heat off the unions, the jobs are nothing to hang your hat on: some 4,200 will be temporary positions helping the Commerce Department prepare for the 2000 census. Many others will be come...
...says a campaign official, "he'd always volunteer." If Gore runs in 2000, many of those donors, their names resting in the personal database that he keeps at the DNC, will be tapped again. During his trip last week to the Los Angeles meeting of the big-spending afl-cio, where he promised new rules requiring all businesses that contract with the Federal Government to meet fair-labor standards, Gore made time for private chats with two significant Democratic Party supporters: supermarket mogul Ronald Burkle and real estate investor Stanley Hirsh. "It's breathtaking how fast and aggressively...
Linda Chavez-Thompson, executive vice-president of the AFL-CIO, will come to Harvard Law School to discuss issues faced by women of color as part of a March 1 conference sponsored by the Women of Color Collective...
...ANGELES: Looking for friends at the AFL-CIO?s boisterous executive council winter meeting, Al Gore and Dick Gephardt tried out some of the rhetoric they are polishing for their own expected presidential campaigns three years from now. "This was really the first primary," says TIME's James Carney. "Gore is definitely running, and while Gephardt stopped short of admitting it, he is certainly Gore's leading competition." It was a tough crowd. Both Democrats tried to assuage union concerns that welfare reform will flood the job market with low-paid, non-union labor, hence further undermining organized labor. While...