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...enforcement of occupational safety and health regulations and of fair labor standards. He also allowed the Labor Department's budget to be cut from $30.1 billion to $23.5 billion and its work force trimmed from 22,000 to fewer than 18,000. One of Donovan's harshest critics, AFL-CIO President Lane Kirkland, said last week that his organization "hopes that the President now will appoint a person who enjoys the respect and confidence of labor as well as management and the public at large...
...sympathetic to the council candidly calls it "an anticaucus caucus." Many Democratic leaders sneer that the group is trying to cure the party's excessive factionalism by introducing still more factionalism. "You can't rebuild something that is split by splitting it further," says an official of the AFL-CIO, which suspects that the council is out to reduce labor's influence in the party. South Carolina Senator Ernest Hollings calls the group "divisive and harmful." Others suspect that the council is likely to become a vehicle for the 1988 presidential ambitions of some of its founders, notably Virginia Governor...
...criticisms have been accompanied by some blunt pressure. AFL-CIO officials warned that the labor federation might reduce its support of Democratic congressional candidates if the council was formed. Later, the 28- member California Democratic House delegation caucused and, says a participant, "virtually ordered" California Congressman Tony Coelho, chairman of the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee, to stay out of the group...
...National Labor Relations Board is investigating charges that the Cantabrigians Nursing Home, located at 195 Prospect St., illegally refuses to recognize the Local 285 of the Service Employees International Union, AFL-CIO...
Despite the official U.S. neutrality, Blaize benefited from outside help. A variety of private Caribbean, West European and U.S. organizations, including the AFL-CIO and a number of conservative public-interest lobbies, funneled money into Grenada to heighten civic awareness and get out the vote. Local taxi drivers were paid as much as $130 on election day for carrying citizens to the polls. The assistance was nonpartisan, but the enlarged turnout probably helped Blaize to defeat the remnants of Gairy's Boss Tweed-style political machine...