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...certainly Gore's leading competition." It was a tough crowd. Both Democrats tried to assuage union concerns that welfare reform will flood the job market with low-paid, non-union labor, hence further undermining organized labor. While Gephardt, a longtime friend of labor whose father was a Teamster, promised to introduce legislation to encourage former welfare recipients finding new jobs to join unions, Gore promised that President Clinton would veto any bill that forces employees to choose between overtime pay and compensatory time off for long hours. AFL-CIO President John Sweeney had opened the meeting with a call...
...G.O.P. challenger Flores won 41% of the vote in a district that is only 26% Republican. Running against the same Democrat this year, the former teamster hopes his crossover muscle is more toned as he breaks the party mold with his support of labor and opposition to Republican legislation that would permit worker-management teams to negotiate outside union contracts...
...Dianne Feinstein's bid for re-election to the Senate. The Free Press reported thatFeinstein employed an illegal alienin the 1980s, a fact later confirmed by U.S. immigration officials. Employees of the two newspapers walked off the job Tuesday night in a dispute over pay and layoffs of Teamster delivery drivers and youth carriers. Both sides return to the bargaining table tomorrow along with a federal mediator.Post your opinion on theNew Mediabulletin board...
...Teamster Strike...
...does the reformist Teamster boss have so much real estate...