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Taken for a Ride
This story is about how non-profits sold clunker cars to welfare recipients while used-car dealers reaped millions. The non-profit Wheels-to-Work program managers set up exclusive deals with friends who sold used cars to the program. The state spent $10,700 per person, but bought cars that cost $2,300 on average, and twice as much as programs in other states. State officials didn't start to monitor the program until two years after it started, and overlooked suspected fraud and mismanagement.
Tags: car; nonprofit; welfare; welfare recipients; used-car dealers; West Virginia Department of Health and Human Resources; Wheels-to-Work Program; Community Action of South Eastern West Virginia; CASE; Belcher's Auto Sales; Temporary Assistance for Needy Families program; National Association of Social Workers; AFL-CIO; Human Resources Development Foundation; Good News Mountaineer Garage; DHHR; Legislative Oversight commission on Workforce Investment
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Organize or Die
Douglas J. McCarron, Chief of the United Brotherhood of Carpenters and Joiners of America, pulled the carpenters from the AFL-CIO, the national Labor Federation. In this bold move, he made many enemies, but gained as many admirers. Cleeland examines his rise to power and allows him to, as he says, set the record straight.
Tags: unions; labor; carpenters; organized labor
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Labor Fights for Immigrants
The Nation looks at the changing of attitudes that unions are having towards undocumented workers. Whereas before labor was generally against amnesty for illegal workers, now they are more supportive.
Tags: immigrants; immigration; labor; undocumented workers; AFL-CIO; unions; employer sanctions; labor rights; amnesty
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Union Pension Power
The Nation looks at how "labor is mobilizing its investment power to pressure corporate America."
Tags: labor; pensions; corporations; pension funds; AFL-CIO; workers
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Show of Hands: In Drive to Unionize, Casino Dealers Defy A Las Vegas Tradition. Their Old Bosses Took Care Of Them; Then, Sin City Became a Corporate Town. Less 'Juice' and Fewer 'Tokes'
Dealers in Vegas are making moves to unionize as their once-key position at casinos erodes under new corporate management. But in a town where housekeepers and waitresses are union members, casino executives are dead-set against a dealers' organization. They say they need the flexibility to rearrange dealers during gamblers' streaks. Dealers find that tips ('tokes') are taxed more, wages have not kept up with the cost of living, pensions are paltry, based on $5.15 hourly wages, young and attractive new dealers are given prime slots and better tables than senior dealers, fewer big stake games occur as Vegas turns into a mecca for tourists on buses, and changes in ownership have cost dealers their seniority.
Tags: casinos; AFL-CIO; Teamsters; union; labor; Mob; Organized Crime; perks; tips; the Strip; consolidation
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The Washington Monthly investigates Arthur Coia and the AFL-CIO. While Coia has vowed to clean up his union and break its longstanding, notorious partnership with crime, unions still are rife with a volatile mix of corruption, mob ties, and political influence. The article looks at Coia's rise to power and the government's current investigation of Coia. (May 1996)
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The Progressive investigates the persistence of sexual harassment for women performing in blue-collar industry jobs. In a class action suit against Mitsubishi women workers complained of everything from groping, crude graffiti and derogatory epithets to male coworkers masturbating while watching female workers. Union response and support of women in blue-collar jobs has been inadequate. (August 1996)
Tags: Colatosti Misrepresented Equal Employment Opportunities Commission (EEOC) AFL-CIO 3 pgs.
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Who really controls politics? Time magazine answers this question in examining the new heads of the AFL-CIO, NRA, pro-choice, the tobacco industry, the pro-life and pro-choice movements, as well as leaders in small business and Hollywood.
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It's been seven years since the Supreme Court severly cut back union dues authority, yet the Labor Board still hasn't moved to enforce that ruling. Why not? A four-month ILR investigation turns up the usual Washington suspects--politics, power, money, and egos. (Jan. 27, 1995)
Tags: Tallmer NLRB's long refusal to enforce 'Beck' laid to politics; internal pressures Congress AFL-CIO National Right to Work Committee National Labor Relations Act 8 pgs.
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Houston Post finds a United Way agency associated with a local AFL-CIO chapter mixed its charity assets and employees with its labor council assets and employees, June 26 - Sept. 6, 1987.