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Buchanan's reputation as an unblushing hard-liner on just about everything dates back to his days as a Nixon White House aide. "He's the reverse of most politicians, who are intensely political with trimmings of ideology,'' says Nixon's White House special consultant Leonard Garment. "He's intensely ideological with a trimming of politics." When Buchanan returned to the White House in 1985 as director of communications for Ronald Reagan, he was the same, only more so. "I hadn't encountered anyone like Pat since I had to deal with the White Citizens' Councils in my days...
...products of America's fast-growing, high-wage export industries. More important factors in holding down wages are automation, sluggish growth in productivity and consumer demand for lower-priced goods, whether foreign or domestic. Tariffs against shirts made in China might help workers in America's shrinking garment industry; they won't do much to protect secretaries replaced by voicemail or assembly-line workers shoved aside by robots. And retaliatory tariffs against U.S. goods could mean a loss of jobs for big American exporters like aerospace and agriculture. "The reason why we're not the kind of manufacturing economy...
...Newspaper Guild itself merged with the Communication Workers of America on June 19. Ten days later, the International Ladies Garment Workers Union combined with the Amalgamated Clothing and Textile Workers' Union to form UNITE. On July 3, the United Rubber Workers Union voted to combine with the United Steelworkers of America. On July 4, the National Education Association consolidated its presence in our nation's schools by absorbing the United Federation of Teachers. Does there seem to be a trend here...
...national labor federation. Sweeney beat out insider Thomas Donahue by pledging to rebuild union membership, open more labor posts to minorities and women and-perhaps most significant-adopt more militant tactics against cost-slashing employers. True to his word, Sweeney led a protest march through New York City's garment district the day after his election...
...after he defeated Thomas Donahue to take control of the AFL-CIO, John Sweeney virtually blocked traffic on Eighth Avenue in New York City's Garment District, leading a rally of nearly 2,000 workers and denouncing "greedy employers" who are holding wages down. As an outsider in the historically closed circle of AFL-CIO leadership, Sweeney's challenge will be to revive a union that has been in steady decline for the past five years, says New York bureau chief John Moody. "His great strength is that he is not associated with the leadership of the union under former...