Word: labors
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However, Lafer said that now the General Counsel of the National Labor Law believes that TAs are employees...
...example, contributed about $5 million last year to the Democratic cause. If Clinton is serious, he will need to persuade his allies that opposing reform is not in the nation's interests and to back off. If he is really serious, he may yield to Republican demands that labor unions, which spent $35 million in the last campaign, not be allowed to use mandatory union dues for political purposes...
Tony is Anthony Lake, the Massachusetts cattleman and college professor who ran the National Security Council for Clinton and is the President's choice to run the CIA. Alexis is Alexis Herman, the White House aide and longtime Democratic Party operative whom Clinton tapped to be Secretary of Labor. A former aide to Henry Kissinger, Lake is bookish and white. An ally of the late Ron Brown, Herman is glamorous and black. He's diplomacy and Mount Holyoke College; she's civil rights and Mobile, Alabama. On camera, where Lake can be quirky and anxious, Herman is cool and unflappable...
Clinton has already fought for Herman once. AFL-CIO chief John Sweeney opposed her nomination last fall, favoring former Pennsylvania Senator Harris Wofford instead. Jesse Jackson personally lobbied Sweeney on Herman's behalf, but that isn't what changed the labor chief's mind; after a bruising role in getting Clinton re-elected, Sweeney simply wasn't in the mood for a fight. Now that Herman faces confirmation trouble, Clinton has turned to Washington lobbyists Michael Berman and Patrick Griffin to help shepherd her nomination...
...White House official is worried that Trent Lott's Republicans are setting up two pins to knock one down. More likely, the G.O.P. will decide just to rough up both candidates a bit. If so, Herman has at least one advantage: one of her first accomplishments as a labor activist some 25 years ago was finding jobs for unemployed teenagers from Mobile--at a shipyard in nearby Pascagoula, Mississippi, where Lott's dad was a pipefitter...