Word: wurf
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Union leaders angrily deny that their demands are unreasonable. Thundered Jerry Wurf, the unyielding president of the AFSCME: "Public officials play a double-barreled game. They promise expansion of services and contraction of taxes. When they can't deliver, they make us the scapegoats." In fact, according to the Labor Department, union settlements in industry during the first quarter of this year have produced wage increases of about 12.5% while wage settlements in most cities have been averaging about half as much...
...chance remark came in answer to criticism of the Administration's restrictive economic policies during a minisummit on social services held at the Department of Health, Education and Welfare. Arguing against cuts in social services, Jerry Wurf, fiery president of the State, County and Municipal Employees Union, charged that Government policies aim to shunt most of the burden of fighting inflation on the poor. Replying that everyone is hurt by inflation, Greenspan said: "If you really wanted to examine, percentagewise, who is hurt most in their incomes, it is the Wall Street brokers...
...strike. Meanwhile, an increasing number of local governments are in a predicament: in order to finance the pay boosts workers are demanding and getting, they have to raise taxes or face the possibility that garbage will not be collected and streets not be protected. As A.F.S.C.M.E. President Jerry Wurf has warned, "This is going to be a busy year. We've got a lot of catching...
...JERRY WURF President...
...Wurf has achieved his success by a kind of gruff militancy that is a fading memory in many unions. A last-minute college dropout (in his senior year), he looks deceptively like a brooding scholar with his horn-rimmed glasses, roughhewn features and thatched gray hair. He dispels the image when he speaks, showering listeners with four-letter words in a manner that is both threatening and amiable. Wurf's dogged, determined style has aroused traditionally conservative public workers. "Let's face it," he says, "a guy who's been collecting garbage for 20 years...