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- <text id=93TT2497>
- <title>
- Feb. 15, 1993: Clinton Signals Labor He'll be Friends
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- <history>
- TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1993
- Feb. 15, 1993 The Chemistry of Love
- </history>
- <article>
- <source>Time Magazine</source>
- <hdr>
- THE WEEK, Page 17
- BUSINESS
- Clinton Signals Labor He Will Be a Friend
- </hdr>
- <body>
- <p>For openers, he is considering rehiring air-traffic controllers
- </p>
- <p> Rightly or wrongly, U.S. labor leaders are convinced that
- unrelenting hostility from a Republican White House is a major
- reason why union membership has shrunk to a five-decade low--16% of the work force. Ronald Reagan set the tone in 1981 by not
- only firing illegally striking air-traffic controllers but also
- decreeing a lifetime ban on rehiring them. Now Bill Clinton has
- let it be known that he is considering taking back those
- controllers (maybe 3,000 of an original 11,400 strikers) who
- still want their old jobs. As further proof that he wants an
- entirely different relationship with organized labor, the
- President struck down two George Bush Executive Orders
- especially hated by union leaders. One prohibited closed-shop
- contracts on federally financed construction jobs. The other
- required contractors to post notices informing workers that they
- did not have to join unions, and that if workers were forced to
- pay any money in lieu of dues, they could stop unions from using
- it for political purposes.
- </p>
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- </body>
- </article>
- </text>
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