Word: kamber
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...combat the well-organized incumbent, labor supplemented its usual campaign tools-phone 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...
...view of union leaders, Mondale's defeat is only a temporary setback. "Labor will take a black eye on this," admits Kamber. "But four years from now, when it backs a winner, there will be stories about its amazing comeback." Indeed, the union brass seems eager to make early endorsement an established policy. "I haven't found anybody saying it shouldn't have been done," says Richard Murphy, legislative director of the 650,000-member Service Employees International Union. "I hope we do exactly the same thing next time." The danger, of course, is that the unions...