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...organized labor, 1977 is a year of great expectations. That was the message that came out of the midwinter gathering of the AFL-CIO executive council in Bal Harbour, Fla., last week. Rarely in recent years had George Meany, the AFL-CIO's often flinty president, and his fellow leaders been more buoyant. After eight years of Republican Administrations, the unions can now look forward to dealing and wheedling not only with an intensely sympathetic Democratic Congress but also a Democratic President who is deeply indebted to labor for his election victory...
...major topic of conversation at the Bal Harbour meeting was this year's collective-bargaining calendar, which involves 5 million workers in such key industries as steel, aerospace, communications and coal mining. The consensus is that 1977 wage settlements could be hefty-at least as large as last year's average 8.3% increase for the first year of a contract. Moreover, greater emphasis than ever will be placed on job security...
...sultans of Big Labor, a perennial rite of winter is the annual meeting of the AFL-CIO's executive council in Bal Harbour, Fla., just north of Miami Beach. There, at the garish 15-story Americana Hotel, the heads of 34 AFL-CIO unions representing some 20 million workers-about 21% of U.S. wage earners-gather every February to talk strategy under the sun and in sybaritic splendor. TIME Correspondent Philip Taubman attended this year's eight-day meeting and filed this report...
Only then, she later wrote, did she understand the fate of the "afflicted"--those who, unlike the "oppressed" who harbour either real or imagined hope for revolution, must live with the inexorable fear that life will victimize them. "Since then I have always regarded myself as a slave," she wrote shortly before her death...
Married. John S. Knight, 81, editorial chairman of Knight-Ridder Newspapers, who in 1968 won a Pulitzer Prize for his incisive column, "The Editor's Notebook"; and Elizabeth Good Augustus, 74, wealthy breeder of thoroughbreds; he for the third time, she for the second; in Bal Harbour...