Word: labor
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Although population and building booms are expected in labor-short Los Alamos as a result of the sale, the town will retain the unique character imposed on it by its atomic industry. On its Los Alamos payroll of 3,700 people -virtually the entire community labor force-the AEC employs 478 Ph.D.s, 316 people with M.S. degrees and 618 with B.S. degrees. This concentration of intellect has pressured Los Alamos schools into keeping pace by adopting advanced curriculums, has placed a premium on educational excellence. Los Alamos children have heredity and environment on their side even before they start school...
...labor leaders bargain vigorously for early retirement - for everyone but themselves. The average age of the A.F.L.-C.I.O.'s 29-man policymaking executive committee is 64, but one member is 82, twelve are in their 70s and several are in their late 60s. Last week, at the council's quarterly meeting in Manhattan, A.F.L.-C.I.O. President George Meany, 71, announced a new policy that will bring change, if not youth, to labor's high command...
...nominations to the council have been made by council members themselves, then routinely approved by acclamation on the floor of labor's biennial convention; council members could thus perpetuate themselves in of fice. Beginning with the convention in San Francisco next December, executive council nominations will be made from the floor, then voted on. The change not only ensures the end of self-perpetuation but serves tactful notice to many members that they can either resign gracefully before December or be rudely ousted at the convention. Had he received any resignations from members lately, someone asked George Meany. Replied...
...council hangers-on, including David McDonald, the former boss of the steelworkers, and James Carey, former chief of the electrical workers - both of whom have stayed on the council despite defeats in union elections. Facing up to his prospects, former Drama Student McDonald spoke for many of labor's aging leaders: "Act III, Scene 3. Curtain...
...agitators." But the next day, Co-Presidents Barrientos and Ovando ordered the mining complex reopened. Troops had already rooted out the troublemakers and packed 300 of them off to government colonization projects in the country's rugged north. Clearly, there was more behind the uprising than a local labor dispute. "Wages are not really important," admitted one union leader. "What we want is the overthrow of the military dictatorship...