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...flight to Southern lands of modest wages and right-to-work laws, as well as the increasing use of slick consultants who collaborate with management to create a "union-free environment." Last October an alarmed Robert Georgine, president of the traditionally conservative building and trades department of the AFL-CIO, testified at Congressional hearings that "union-busting is a rapidly expanding and growing industry itself...
...clear pattern of anti-union discrimination has emerged from this screening process," Ira Sills, attorney for Local 26 of the Hotel, Restaurant, Bartenders and Institutional Employees Union AFL-CIO, said yesterday...
...CIO President Lane Kirkland says that the proposed budget "may have psychological value for the bond market and for bankers" but "places most of the burden on those suffering worst under the present economic conditions." The Congressional Black Caucus, a group of 17 Representatives, is no less worried. Representative Parren Mitchell, of Baltimore, has advised his fellow blacks to use every parliamentary tactic available to block budget cuts that would hurt their constituents, such as reductions in job-training programs and aid to cities. Says Mitchell: "The President has got to run the risk of losing another whole block...
...Republican field but he still belongs in it. In his first six years in the House, the reactionary Americans for Constitutional Action gave him an average approval rating of 88 per cent. His views have moderated since then, but even in the past three years, the AFL-CIO's committee on political education gave him an average rating of only 32 per cent, in part for his vote against the Common Situs bill, a measure that would have allowed unions with a greivance against one contractor to picket all the contractors on the same construction site. There aren't many...
...Robert Georgine, president of the AFL-CIO Building and Construction Trades Department, voted for Richard Nixon. He was for the Vietnam War. Michael Harrington worked for the things Georgine fought against. Normally one would expect to find them at each other's throats. But on one issue, the crucial one, they agree--the American economic system is in a crisis and big business is at fault. Unity in diversity: the essence of coalition politics...