Word: kirklands
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Eliot House, Kirkland House, Leverett House, Lowell House and Quincy House residents may vote at a polling place inside Quincy Houses, while DeWolfe, Dunster and Mather House students must travel to Putnam Apartments at 2 Mt. Auburn...
...touch of irony, Sweeney began the year backing Thomas Donahue, 67, the current president of the AFL-CIO and the man he is running against. Sweeney had wanted Lane Kirkland, president of the labor group for 16 years, to step down in favor of Donahue, his No. 2. But when Kirkland refused, Sweeney decided to challenge the leader himself. Kirkland responded by resigning last June--whereupon Donahue became the president...
Donahue says he would lead the 78 unions in the organization by consensus, charging that Sweeney will represent only the interests of the union dissidents. Sweeney retorts that the Kirkland legacy is one of an increasingly toothless movement. The challenger offers his own enviable record: since Sweeney became president of the service-workers union in 1980, it has nearly doubled in size, to 1.02 million workers, representing the fastest growth in the AFL-CIO. Late last week Sweeney held a slight edge and was confident of victory...
...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 president Lane Kirkland. Sweeney has for the moment pumped life into the labor movement, but it remains to be seen how to continue to do so over the long term. He's got a lot of things to deal with: the Caterpillar strike, the Boeing strike, the Detroit newspapers strike. He's really...
Yesterday, Sakis arrived clean-shaven to work at the Eliot-Kirkland kitchen link...