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Union bosses wield personal power far beyond most politicians and businessmen. Huge national headquarters staffs are answerable only to the national leader, and until fairly recently, it was as rare for a major union chief to be voted out of office as it is for a baseball player to thumb an umpire from the ballpark. The effects of the Landrum-Griffin Act of 1959 are changing some of that. Among other things, the law required that unions overhaul their constitutions so as to give rank-and-file members more protection against fraud and coercion in voting on their leadership. Thanks...
European governments loom especially large in labor negotiations. Because the French government employs 25% of the country's labor force and the Italian government 12%, they wield a tremendous influence on wage policies. Under the complicated French labor code, special labor courts handle all grievances, and each plant is required to have an employee committee sitting as advisers to management. Called the Comité d'Entreprise, it can be anything from a great help to a hair shirt, meets at least monthly with plant managers and can have the company's books audited at any time...
...amid diminished Southern opposition, will probably increase this number by another 1,000,000 to 1,500,000 by next year's elections, out of an estimated maximum possible total of 5,000,000 Negro votes in the South. When Negroes achieve their full political potential, they will wield a powerful influence; they comprise more than 30% of the adult population in five of Alabama's eight congressional districts, in three of Mississippi's five districts, and in three of South Carolina's six districts. Although so far, pitifully few Negroes hold office in the South...
Many of Fleming's knottiest problems relate to these 82 men and to their potential successors. The University gives him some rough guidelines in this area, but he and the senior members of the Department wield an enormous amount of discretion. Consequently, appointment practices differ from department to department...
...Jack Connor to sell his policies to the nation's businessmen, Bill Martin and Fred Deming to deal with the international moneymen, and Ackley to pick the brains of the nation's economists. In the coming skirmishes over money policy, these few men are destined to wield more and more power...