Word: situs
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...accept the belated support of organized labor. Once in the Oval Office, however, the conservative Georgia Democrat spent much time soothing largely Republican businessmen, while seeming to slight all sorts of cherished labor goals. Reflecting on Carter's lack of concern for such labor pets as common situs picketing, which would have enabled a single union to shut down a construction site, AFL-CIO President George Meany groused that Carter's record on labor legislation was "a lot of talking but very little action." Last week, in a major effort to woo back the unions, the Administration produced...
Legislatively, Winpisinger would have the AFL-CIO lobby for broad social goals, like national health insurance, rather than concentrate on parochial measures like the common-situs picketing bill. He also would blunt Meany's hard anti-Communist line in foreign policy. Further Winpisinger wants to start a drive to organize blacks and other minorities (I.A.M. membership has dropped 100,000 in the past ten years). In general, says Wimpy, union members are not so conservative as they are believed to be: "They are not comfortable with the idea that they're supposed to hate people on welfare...
...before," says John Motley, congressional representative of the 500,000-member National Federation of Independent Business. With smoothly coordinated pressure, business lobbyists have managed to win exemptions from congressional committees on taxes on oil and gas use, and to defeat organized labor's bid to pass a common situs picketing bill that would have allowed a single union to shut down a construction site. Now the lobbyists are on the verge of their biggest victory: sidetracking the proposed Agency for Consumer Advocacy. A bill to set one up squeaked through a House committee last month by only a single...
...sense of urgency has prompted business lobbyists to use more aggressive tactics. On the common situs bill, explains Forrest Rettgers, executive vice president of the NAM, "we overlooked nothing." Rettgers even lobbied black Congressmen, whom business groups previously had ignored, telling them that minority contractors, who employ mainly nonunion workers, would be hurt by the bill's passage...
...Cause, the liberal lobby, "a lot of these guys ran against the old politics-and there's nothing older than George Meany twisting arms." Even old-line Democrat Al Ullman, chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee and a longtime friend of the unions, opposed the cornmon-situs bill because he thought it potentially inflationary and disruptive to the depressed building industry...