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- <text id=93TT1040>
- <title>
- Mar. 01, 1993: A Friend at the Top
- </title>
- <history>
- TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1993
- Mar. 01, 1993 You Say You Want a Revolution...
- </history>
- <article>
- <source>Time Magazine</source>
- <hdr>
- THE WEEK, Page 14
- BUSINESS
- A Friend at the Top
- </hdr>
- <body>
- <p>Clinton's Labor Secretary tells the AFL-CIO what it most wants
- to hear
- </p>
- <p> How much have Republican administrations had to do with the
- decline in union membership to 16% of the work force, the lowest
- in 50 years? Plenty, say labor leaders: unfriendly Administrations
- have enabled employers to stall off union-representation elections
- for years and even break strikes. Secretary of Labor Robert
- Reich now proposes to change all that. Meeting with the AFL-CIO
- executive council in Bal Harbour, Florida, Reich repledged Bill
- Clinton's support for a law to prohibit employers from hiring
- permanent replacements for striking workers (the certainty of
- a George Bush veto long kept the Democratic majorities in Congress
- from even trying to pass such a law). Further, said Reich, Clinton
- will appoint a special commission to recommend other ways to
- equalize the power of unions and companies, both by administrative
- action and by rewriting basic labor law. The labor federation
- promptly reciprocated by pledging support for Clinton's deficit-cutting
- program.
- </p>
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- </body>
- </article>
- </text>
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