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...Stevens boycott has received the endorsement of the AFL-CIO and a number of leading southern civil rights advocates. Locally, a student committee last week sent letters to the Harvard Coop and the Harvard Student Agencies Linen Service asking them to observe the boycott. So far neither the Coop nor HSA has said that it will...
...TIME'S Board of Economists, thinks that the President should have provided incentives to businessmen for on-the-job training of youths. More basically, he complains that Carter "has failed to come to grips with the fundamental factor behind teen-age unemployment-the minimum wage law." The AFL-CIO is now campaigning to have the $2.30-an-hour pay floor raised to $3.00. Such a step could well price even greater numbers of unskilled young people out of the job market and into the street. Says a Florida social worker who tries to find work for teen-agers from...
...Rogers: "We want to get so many phone calls going into the company that they can't make phone calls out." The union has allotted $1.5 million a year for the next ten years for the Stevens campaign, and has a pledge of full support from the AFL-CIO...
...needs a cane to get around. His eyesight is so poor that when he plays golf, he has to have his aides tell him how far it is to the green. But during "the Meany show," the midday press conference that follows each closed-door, morning meeting, the AFL-CIO chiefs humor is as quick and salty as ever...
Ullman's handiwork evoked howls of criticism from labor and business economists alike. "An administrative nightmare," declared AFL-CIO Research Director Rudy Oswald. "It's pro-Sun Belt and anti-Snow Belt," complained Jack Carlson, the chief economist of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, who objected to the bias for only growing firms...