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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...
...formation of the federation but frowned on its support for divestment. "We agree that pass laws and apartheid ought to be dismantled," said a State Department spokesman, "but we strongly disagree with the call for divestiture." Officially, the South African government adopted a cautious attitude toward the new superunion. Indeed, declaring that the "revolutionary climate in South Africa is fast losing momentum," State President P.W. Botha lifted the five-month-old state of emergency in eight of the 38 areas where it had been imposed. Those areas were mostly rural settlements and had been for the most part untouched...
...ruckus with the actors' unions (TIME, Sept. 11, 1939). Some 48 A. F. of L. unions are concerned in one way or another with show business, including those of the teamsters, upholsterers, costume workers, floor coverers, ornamental iron workers, bartenders. Last week 20 of them joined in a superunion: the Combined Theatrical Amusement Crafts. Its announced purpose: to corral the rest of the 48. Its president is Vincent Jacobi of the stagehands' Theatrical Protective Union No. 1. But observers wondered whether behind the scenes ambitious George Browne might be trying for tsardom again...
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