Word: situs
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Only Sop. Suddenly the rest of labor's legislative program is in deep trouble. A prime example: repeal of Section 14B of the Taft-Hartley Act, which permits states to outlaw the union shop. Congressional leaders, smarting from the common-situs debacle, are unlikely even to introduce a repeal bill. There are other indications of labor's rapidly declining political clout. Carter passed over the AFL-CIO'S choices for Secretary of Labor (John Dunlop) and Secretary of Defense (James Schlesinger). He also has named New York City Human Rights Commissioner Eleanor Holmes Norton to head...
...labor's quid failed to produce the anticipated quo. The House, in a stunning rebuff to the unions, last month rejected the common-situs picketing bill, which would have allowed one striking union to shut down an entire construction site. The same week, the White House came out for a $2.50 minimum wage-50? less than the AFL-CIO had demanded and only a 2? increase over the present minimum. "Shameful," spluttered Meany...
Labor chiefs dismiss the setbacks as temporary. They admit that the customarily well-oiled AFL-CIO lobbying apparatus stumbled badly on the common-situs bill by ignoring warnings that the measure was in trouble until 48 hours before the vote. But, says Thomas Donahue, Meany's top assistant, "when you knock us down once, you don't get any prize. We've been down before, dusted ourselves off, and come back-and we will again...
...since 1938, to offer counsel on labor matters. Used hard bargaining to fight inflation as head of construction industry's stabilization committee and as Cost of Living Council chief . . . Named Ford's Labor chief in February 1975 . . . Quit last February after Ford vetoed the Dunlop-backed common situs picketing bill...
...known to a generation of Americans as "Mister Republican," has attacked Metzenbaum for his support of the Humphrey-Hawkins full employment bill and extensive cuts in the defense budget. Metzenbaum responded with criticism of Taft for support the de-regulation of oil and natural gas prices and opposing common situs picketing...