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...least one union, the American Federation of Government Employees (an AFL-CIO affiliate with 300,000 members), is serious about the notion. Its rationale: since military pay is already linked by law and practice to the salaries of federal civilian employees, the two should combine their muscle to bargain together. The union insists that wartime discipline would not become a matter of union negotiations. Union officials note that countries such as West Germany, The Netherlands and Sweden have unionized soldiers and no break down of discipline has resulted. What's more, as one joke among the Government Employees union...
Heartened by such successes, Moynihan started to take his show on the road. At an AFL-CIO convention in San Francisco last October, he approvingly cited a New York Times editorial that called Uganda's President Idi Amin a "racist murderer" and incorrectly added that it was "no accident" that Amin was chairman of the Organization of African Unity (O.A.U.). Moynihan thus in effect denounced moderate African leaders along with the infamous "Big Daddy"?a mistake that may have cost crucial votes on a motion to postpone, and thus possibly consign to oblivion, the notorious anti-Zionist resolution that...
...there were no job riots, no encampments of the unemployed in Washington, few loud calls for radical economic and social change. As the election year of 1976 opens, the AFL-CIO is calling for a damn-the-consequences drive to slash the jobless rate as rapidly as possible. It urges the Government to expand the money supply at whatever rate may be necessary, adopt whatever tax-and-spending policies seem called for, and even start direct public-hiring programs (the union federation does not say for what kind of jobs) to get the jobless rate down to 3% and keep...
...Ford was expected to repudiate a bill that Labor Secretary John Dunlop had eased through Congress. Part of the bill is favored by the AFL-CIO but is anathema to the right wing of the G.O.P.: it would allow a single local of craftsmen-for example, carpenters-to picket and thus close down an entire building project. The White House received more than half a million pieces of mail opposing the "common situs" picketing bill. Said one adviser to the President's campaign: "If he doesn't veto situs picketing, he's dead...
...businessmen, or perhaps more so, they suffer from a reputation for narrowness of vision. Leonard Woodcock, 64, president of the United Auto Workers, has shown compassion, wit, a sensitivity to change in the economy, and a deep interest in foreign affairs. Lane Kirkland, 53, secretary-treasurer of the AFL-CIO, is one of the ablest union administrators and an astute student of automation, race relations, social security and foreign intelligence operations...