Word: presidental
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Though Meany would probably never have been voted out of office, rumblings in the ranks were growing. This year union leaders began to complain about Meany's strained relations with the White House. Meany blamed Carter for not pushing hard enough for the legislation making unionization easier that Congress...
Aged and cantankerous Meany was, but there is not a labor leader in the land who says he will not be missed. "George Meany is the AFL-CIO," asserts Fred Kroll, president of the railway, airline and steamship clerks' union. No one ever questioned Meany's dedication to...
Rising fast in the hierarchy, Meany was chosen president of the AFL in 1952. He promptly engineered a merger between his craft unions and the industrial unions of the CIO, producing a national labor movement with the muscle to back up its demands. Yet he remained more practical than ideological...
But Meany was unable to maintain the momentum of unionism as more workers turned white collar. Union membership has shrunk from 34% of the work force when he became president to 23% today. Without Meany's capacity for reaching consensus, the fractious unions may have trouble working together. Says...
As if Carter did not have enough to annoy him last week, Vice President Walter Mondale, speaking in Cincinnati, declared: "If President Kennedy runs, and I expect him to run, he will be renominated and I am convinced re-elected." Two days later, the Associated Press sent an advisory message...