Word: labor
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...exert our independence" of the A.F.L.-C.I.O. on is sues of its choosing. Reuther showed some of that independence by withholding from the A.F.L.-C.I.O. $232,000 in auto workers' dues for two months, finally paying an installment of half the amount last week. Though few in the labor movement believe that Reuther will pull out of the giant federation, he is expected to pursue an even more defiant course, further weakening the organization's unity of purpose...
...complaining that the increased costs might force some hotels to close and cut down on employment of trade-unionists. Though some member unions have taken at least token steps to ease discrimination against Negroes, many have yet to support the civil rights drive as fervently as they might. Moreover, labor continues to be peculiarly apathetic about corruption. Last week in New York City, Martin Rarback, a painters' union ex-official under indictment on charges of pocketing $840,000 in bribes from contractors, was reappointed to an organizing post in his union...
With a major round of new contracts coming up in 1967, labor is sure to try to top the estimated average settlement of 4.5% that it made in 1966 (v. the 3.2% guideposts, which have since been unofficially upped to 5%). Demands are already being heard for legislation to deal with any resulting strikes against the public interest-promised, but never delivered, by President Johnson this year. Last week Floyd D. Hall, president of Eastern Air Lines, asked in a Detroit speech: "Is there no other way to settle our differences than by open conflict that injures those who have...
...failure of British policy toward Rhodesia was equally apparent in London, where the House of Commons held its stormiest session since the Suez crisis of ten years ago. For the first time since Labor took control of the government two years ago, the Conservatives were in open opposition on the Rhodesia question. Wilson, charged Tory Deputy Leader Reginald Maudling, was leading Britain "into one of the greatest disasters in its history...
...habits were "cases of dubious financial situations, corruption, abuses, incorrect borrowing and unrestricted eating and drinking." By commandism, Le Due Tho meant orders heedless of local needs and wishes, and simple snobbery: "A number of leaders in factories and at construction sites do not associate with workers and labor cells...