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...event had been long expected, yet it still came as a shock that reverberated through the U.S. labor movement. After 24 embattled years as president of the AFL-CIO, George Meany, 85 and ailing, announced last week that he would retire in November. When AFL-CIO Secretary-Treasurer Lane Kirkland broke the news to the members of the federation's executive council, they sat in stunned silence...
...cortisone injections. After spending two months in the hospital and a month at home, he returned to work in August in a wheelchair. Meany was able to spend only a few hours a day in the office. "That just added to the stagnation," says an official at AFL-CIO headquarters in Washington. "Nobody wanted to decide anything without hearing from George, and he was just not around enough...
...Meany blamed Carter for not pushing hard enough for the legislation making unionization easier that Congress voted down. He denounced the President for supporting the original wage-price guidelines, which he felt favored business over labor. Ironically, on the day that Meany's retirement was announced, the AFL-CIO and the White House reached agreement on an accord that will give labor a voice in the setting of future wage guidelines and in forming economic policy to combat the recession...
...elections held in the company's plants. The National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) determined that the workers voted under coersion and the threat of illegal firing. When Stevens did not respond to the charges, the ACTWU organizers tried a new tack and joined with the AFL-CIO in launching the much-publicized boycott of J.P. Stevens products in 1976. But like the NLRB warnings, the boycott seems to have left J.P. Stevens unmoved. The corporation, despite all efforts, continues to ignore allegations of unfair practices and court rulings finding it guilty of price fixing, wiretapping, tax fraud, violation of health...
UnionsMembers Contract expires Harvard University Employees Representative Association (HUERA) custodians 488 Nov.30 1979 guards 44 Maintenance Trades Council of New England, AFL-CIO electricians carpenters painters 353 Dec. 7, 1979 Hotel Restaurant and Institutional Employees Union Local 26, AFL-CIO 534 June 1980 Harvard University Police Association 47 Dec. 31, 1979 Boston Typographical Union Local 13 AFL-CIO 14 Spring 1980 Graphic Arts Intermational Union Locals 300 16 b AFL-CIO bookbinders lithographers...