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...factories have stirred a heated controversy in the U.S. over the number of American jobs that may be going to Mexican workers. The maquiladoras, thunders Victor Munoz, president of the AFL-CIO's 12,000-member Central Labor Union in El Paso, are "a scam, a con game. All they're creating is more profits." In February union workers surrounded a maquiladora trade show in El Paso with a caravan of trucks. Last week a team of U.S. analysts began a study of the border region for a House subcommittee that is examining the impact of the factories...
...diversity was evident in class as well as culture. In the '60s hard hats were all too often on the sidelines taunting "unpatriotic" protesters. This spring many of the demonstrators wore union insignia. The staunchly conservative AFL-CIO hierarchy urged its members to boycott the rally, but five of the six largest unions in the federation endorsed the protest, and union members were heavily represented. Some observers estimated that as many as a third of the marchers were union members...
...MARCH was not mainstream. The only major politician who came was Jesse Jackson. Meanwhile, the establishment "leaders"--AFL-CIO, Congressmen and media--did their best to ignore the gathering. But this march on Washington was not a nostalgic reunion of malcontents. It was the nation serving notice that they have not acceded to the Reagan Devolution. We were not the majority, but we represented those who will come...
...boycott over Coors' union policy continues. According to John Laughlin of the Massachusetts AFL-CIO, the boycott will end, "When either Coors allows a free undeterred [union] election or when they settle a collective bargaining agreement with Brewery Workers Local...
...even if the AFL-CIO were to settle its disputes with the company, many boycotters would not be satisfied, for they object not just to brewery policy, but to the organizations which the Coors family funds with their brewery profits. Scondras typifies this position with his claim, "It would be self-destructive for gay people or black people or progressive people to be financially supporting a family that makes it very clear through their behavior that they're interested in dealing with gay people, black people and progressive people in a very disrespectful manner." Scondras' assertions are based...