Word: wages
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...decisive in his victory at the polls. "We were in a state of euphoria," recalls Al Zack, AFL-CIO spokesman and a confidant of Labor Chief George Meany. "We had a wish list that was a mile long." But then the disappointments began. Carter and Meany clashed over minimum wage, unemployment, and Social Security legislation. Meany found so many black marks on his list that he added them up and gave Carter a grade at this February's AFL-CIO meeting in Florida. "C minus," he grumped...
Last week Jimmy Carter expressed a wish of his own to Meany and his AFL-CIO executive council during an hour-and-a-half meeting in the White House Indian Treaty Room. Carter told Big Labor that he wanted its support for his program of voluntary wage and price restraints to curb inflation. Only the day before, at a lavish White House breakfast meeting, Carter had announced a gift of sorts for the 83-year-old Meany: a solid Administration endorsement for the troubled labor-reform bill. But despite Carter's help on this pet Meany project, the labor...
...rebuff was never in doubt. "George Meany has nothing but contempt for Carter," one union staffer confided before the meetings. "The way George sees it. Carter doesn't have any real sympathy for the labor movement." A more laconic labor strategist called the outcome of the meeting on wage restraint before it took place...
...Carter ain't going to get nothing." In an earnest 20-minute speech, Carter diplomatically stopped short of asking Big Labor for a public endorsement of his voluntary wage guidelines, which seek to hold wage hikes below the 7.5% average of the past two years, but he did ask for general support for wage restraint without guidelines-if prices ease...
...psychology that grips business and labor. Thus they argue that the President's efforts to induce "voluntary" restraint are worthwhile. Says Robert Nathan, a Washington economic consultant: "The most important thing in holding down inflation is to get business and labor's cooperation on prices and wages." Everybody agrees that winning labor support is remote, especially after George Meany last week thumbed his nose at Carter's importuning for restraint. Arthur Okun, a senior fellow at the Brookings Institution, notes that the rate of wage increases has jumped more than a full point in a year...