Word: labors
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Haley Barbour was worried, and he sounded the alarm. The chairman of the Republican Party knew that organized labor was about to launch the most audacious, best-financed attack his party had ever endured. So two Fridays ago, he brought together a dozen of his party's most powerful leaders. The meeting, in a glass-lined conference room in Republican headquarters on Capitol Hill, included top people from the Christian right, the pro-life movement, Big Business and small business. Barbour told the group that he thought the AFL-CIO's campaign on behalf of the Democrats would be worth...
...fight burst into the open last week as Congress squabbled over a series of deeply emotional issues inflamed by interest-group pressure. Democrats answered labor's call by trying to raise the minimum wage, but Republicans blocked the move on behalf of business leaders. Playing to the pro-life activists, a solid phalanx of Republicans (and a minority of Democrats) in the House passed a ban on late-term abortions, but President Clinton heard from his pro-choice supporters and promised to veto it. Just days before, the House had voted to repeal the ban on assault weapons...
...notion of Big Labor as a potent force might seem like a relic from the days of sock hops and soda shops. But Barbour and the Republicans were stirred up for good reason. The 13 million-member AFL-CIO tossed the President an early endorsement and backed it up with a special assessment of union dues to bankroll a blitz of saturation advertising, computer-assisted organizing and massive telemarketing. The enterprise amounts to an all-out war by organized labor to turn back the Republican tide of 1994. John Sweeney, the AFL-CIO's new rabble-rousing president, told TIME...
Yale's Student Labor Action Coalition (SLAC) will ask students to withhold tuition payments for next fall's semester as a show of support for Yale's striking dining hall workers, SLAC announced yesterday...
Daniels calls me "a living historian who denies, albeit implicitly, that Slavery and its successor regime were not fully-fledged systems established and perpetuated by the white majority to steal the labor of African-Americans and deny them the opportunity to compete equally in society." In fact, I called slavery "repugnant," and I described the "successor regime" as "broadly institutionalized American racism...