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...proposal by the leaders of Yale's striking clerical and technical workers union to return temporarily to work has angered rank-and-file members of the AFL-CIO local...
...banks, flyers, canvassing-with an array of high-tech methods. "They've moved into the 20th century politically," says Washington-based Labor Consultant Victor Kamber. "Now they use direct mail and laser-printed letters. They show videodisks in union halls." Two years ago, aided by computers, the AFL-CIO started to pinpoint unregistered members and sign them up. In Alabama, registration among members in one Sheet Metal Workers' local shot from 40% to more than 90%. Last month, AFL-CIO President Kirkland took to the road in a "solidarity van," going on a two-week...
...that they bear any responsibility for his defeat. If anything, they say, Mondale dug his own grave by not campaigning directly on labor issues. Many union officials maintain that the interest ignited by the early endorsement greatly strengthened their political apparatus. "The process produced its intended result," says AFL-CIO Spokesman Murray Seeger. "It's given us a kind of excitement, a kind of unity we never...
...muster a four-fifths majority for income tax increases. It would also have required voter approval for all new levies. Opposing the proposition was an unusual coalition of critics, including Democratic Governor James Blanchard, the state's leading corporations (General Motors, Ford Motor and Chrysler), the AFL-CIO, educators and former G.O.P. Governors Wilham Milliken and George Romney. They helped persuade voters that the measure would have drastically shrunk state services, especially education...
...collection or street maintenance, without the approval of two-thirds of the local voters. It also provided for a property tax rebate (average amount: $300) for 40% of the state's households. The proposal attracted a diverse chorus of critics, including Republican Governor George Deukmejian and the AFL-CIO, who warned voters that Proposition 36 would batter local governments and damage the state's credit rating...