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...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...
...COMMON SITUS. In 1975 Ford gave public promises and firm private assurances to his Labor Secretary, John Dunlop, that he would sign the "common situs picketing bill," which would permit a single construction union to shut down an entire building site. But he gave in to great pressure from construction contractors and Republican leaders and vetoed the measure. With that, Dunlop resigned...
...anathema to the right wing of the G.O.P.: it would allow a single local of craftsmen-for example, carpenters-to picket and thus close down an entire building project. The White House received more than half a million pieces of mail opposing the "common situs" picketing bill. Said one adviser to the President's campaign: "If he doesn't veto situs picketing, he's dead...
LABOR. Ford has already committed himself to approve Labor Secretary John Dunlop's controversial "common situs" picketing bill, which would sharply increase the power of individual construction locals. Under the present law, a striking plumbers' local, say, cannot form a picket line to prevent carpenters or electricians or members of any other construction union from working on the same job. Dunlop's bill would permit such picketing...
Labor has long sought, and contractors have long fought, such a measure. But Dunlop was willing to approve common situs picketing in exchange for something he considered more important to the overall economy: a mechanism that would centralize the fragmented, localized bargaining structure in the building trades...