The American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees (AFSCME) is withdrawing its previously announced support of Howard Dean’s presidential bid.
AFSCME’s brilliant associate general counsel, Robert D. Lenhard, was nominated to the Federal Election Commission last summer.
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Myron Krocek, one of the laid-off miners, takes the floor. He has 23 years of service in the salt mine. A big, bearded guy in tattered blue jeans, Krocek looks like an Old Testament prophet. "Cargill's a power-hungry ogre," Krocek says. "We've been illegally replaced by scabs, and Cargill's getting away with it. Mayor Jane sold us out. We've got to stick together and vote this contract down 100 percent. Sometimes you have to draw the line. It's a matter of principle."Pathetic tale of a busted union, Teamsters Local 436 at the Lake Erie salt mine. [Mefi]
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"I never would have believed it in my wildest dreams," said Jerry Green, a union leader who worked for 27 years in the plant here as a cement-gun sprayer. "I thought Bethlehem was a giant and steel was king."PI: Bethlehem Steel's long fall ends today in corporate death.
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