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GEORGE BUSH DEVELOPED A SUDDEN INTEREST IN labor law last Monday, the very day that the AFL-CIO leadership endorsed Bill Clinton for the Democratic presidential nomination. Bush issued a directive ordering all federal contractors to notify their non-union employees in union shops that they may decline to have their dues diverted to political candidates they do not support. Bush broke no new ground here -- the Supreme Court established that principle in a 1988 ruling. That is why the Bush pronouncement had the sound of an election-year effort to placate the restless right wing of the Republican Party...
...Bush order does not carry much throw weight. While the White House declares it will affect as many as 3 million workers, the AFL-CIO claims it will involve fewer than 1 million. And though it will not greatly diminish the potency of union political activities, it does send a message. Asked if he was engaging in union busting, Bush responded with a straight face, "We enforce individual rights." Bush, countered AFL-CIO president Lane Kirkland, "has given hypocrisy a bad name...
...Clinton appointees, arranged a $300,000 loan for Morrilton Plastics, a company that made parts for Detroit automakers, enabling it to build up inventory in anticipation of a strike by the United Auto Workers. At the time, the loan outraged union activists. Bill Becker, head of the state AFL-CIO, bluntly accuses the Clinton administration of "union busting...
...Chicago. Clinton's defenders take comfort in the fact that their candidate has survived months of scrutiny by the press and voters. "He's got presidential stature, and he's convinced a lot of people that he can win," says Ed Scribner, president of the Metropolitan Detroit AFL-CIO. "When he started out, there were some problems with his private life, but I think most people in our union look at that as a private matter and do not think it takes away from his ability to run this country." But that reasoning ignores the fact that Clinton...
Harkin can only dream of his potential breakthrough primaries, Michigan and Ohio, a long and lonely three weeks into the political future. Although he won the support of 14 AFL-CIO unions last week, the angry prairie populist must be asking himself, "Aren't there some traditional Democrats still alive, somewhere...