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...Things are now so bad in American labor relations that aunionisn't enough," says TIME's Bernard Baumohl. Faced with declining memberships and dwindling political clout, leaders of the major auto, steel and machinists unions today said they would merge into a a 2 million-member superunion by the year 2000. That way, Baumohl says, the United Auto Workers, the Steelworkers and the International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers could stage "much wider strikes in many different industries that would put much more pressure on the business sector when any of their brethren are threatened." Why now? "Virtually every...
This was supposed to have been the week that the Senate Republicans put forward a reform of the welfare system that they had promised would be the showpiece of their new reign. Gingrich's steel-disciplined House had made it look easy by passing its measure in a mere four days last March. The Senate Finance Committee's more moderate version of the bill is so entangled in controversy, both ideological and economic, that Dole has twice had to postpone sending it to the Senate floor. He now hopes to begin debate the week...
Long after factories have disappeared from the lives of many workers and after humane labor laws have been passed, we are still die-cast in a factory mentality--as much as if most U.S. employees still spent eight hours a day working with molten steel...
Hamilton also studied the dangers of monoxide emissions in steel mills, explosive manufacturers' use of poisons and the appearance of spastic anemia in workers who used jackhammers...
...make "mutant music for a mutant age." His stylistically eclectic CD Maxinquaye is driven by churning, yearning hip-hop rhythms accentuated by grungy guitar riffs. On the track Pumpkin, Tricky recycles guitar licks from the alternative-rock band Smashing Pumpkins and inserts them into a haunting aria. On Black Steel he employs a female vocalist, Martine, to cover a song by the black-nationalist rap group Public Enemy...