"Ro"M t112" Wv 151 m. Vol. 24-oe 45 l2 - | -~~~~~~Noveenb*r 13,1i98t' 'ENIGINEERED RECES0 v 2 0 1981 -r~ff of c. Califoma's. unemployment rate Administration and that they are the Reagan economic, policy. It rose almost a full percentage point being offered nothing to help but julst won't work." -in October over September, from "more of the same." Representative Parren Mit hoiI 7.2% to 8.1%. This nearly doubled. Latweek when Secretary of (D-Md.),. a member of the con- the -nati-onal jobless rate increase Labor.Ray Doniov'an refused to gressional, joint econoihilc com- which went from .7.5% in Septem& -testify -before a Senate committee. mnittee, said the administration ber to 8.1% last. month, according -on -the unemployment prblem, has' underestimated the -prGblem. to U.S. -Labor Department figures, -Senator. -Edward Kenne-dy' (D- "My hunch,'" he said, "is tha't released'on November 6. Mass.) ch'aracter'ized. 'the- latest it's eventually going to gD high- AFL-CIO President Lane Kirk- national jobless figures as "the er than eight percent if' present land said American warkers have worst news for the economy is, policies are continued." been victimized by. "this. engi- the last -five years . We are House Speaker Thomas O'Neill neered recession" -of the Reagan' witnessing the 'disentegration of (Continued on Page 4) Pre'sident Reagan isattempting. eBomics, is the the" 'that gov- generations. ago. have all been' "tto repeal {lie 20th Century"' Jim ornment is inherelitly isnp'ro'duv government-' contributions which' Baker,. director of AFL1CIORe- ti-ve and an enemy of prodtudion. facilitate commer'ce and increase' gion Six, told a lunche'on 'session Baker attacked this -view as or- producetivity." of the annual regional -joint con- roneos. Public schools and government ference on employmenlt and train- . He pointed out.' "Many gQvern-. training programs also have coni- ing of the California Employ- -ment. actions have 'inerea-sed the (Continued on. Page.4) ment & Training Advisory C:oun- productivity of the economy. Fo'r cil and the Combined Association example, the conetrwMn of the- of Prime Sponsor Administrators basic transportation. system, in- Unions M.-ing last- Friday at the Oakland Hyatt cluding the. -interstate -highway hotel. sYstemi local ro.ads and streets. C-riticizing tbe -conf'us:nI and airports and eVien,: stibsidies and' _ ~~~~mix.Of. -SUs Ito..,.. th,, rQailroaft.. -Q dE * anmonetary resrira guidfiig-the Administration, Baker I)uglas Fras~er, pregideinto told the 200 conference -partici- the UWA .and, m'ember. of thie-- pat that "there is no guarantee AFL-CIO executive "council, Q -that t-he windfalls provided by the behalf -of .a gro'up of 'Iseveial *Reagan tax,cuts to -the most 'for- ParleyP d major unons" and consumer or-',, tunate 'among us will be- produic- ganizations held a pr.eps-confer- tively invested." -In F* ee 5 ence this -week to annouJice legal. "Some of the wealth wrill. be Top Bay Area labor leaders and action aimed at forc'ing the Rea- consumed," he, pointed out, "somne labor historians are scheduled to gan- Administration to rehire air' of the' capital may. be used to take part in a. conference on "'San traffic controller's fired'en masse transfer production overseas Francisco Labor: Tradition and in August.: which willI cost jobs, billions 'will Change" -to be -h.eld at the Plum-b A suit, filed in "Washingto'n, undoubtedly be 'use-d for corporate eirs Local: 38.- Union'RHall at 1621 D.C. charges that -safety in air mergers, and acquistons. Capital' Market-Street. in' San Francisco on travel is. deteriorating.. as time i's also'bieing eaten up.by.-high in- and win'ter weather im-pa'ct on terest rates, which. also discour- Sat'urday, Dec.em'ber.5. the strain o'n Federal i4viat"ion age iiivestment.-" *The all-day conference, jointly Administration. .operatio.ns. The Another facet' of supply' side sponsored by the San Francisco plaintiffs a'sk tha't enough, experi-::., La-bor Council, Join't Council of -enced conltrollers .be~kehired to- Teamsters District 7 a'nd the Ino provid. a comprehefisive, -safe U.-C. Rive'rside .ternational Longshoremen's -and and efficientssytem." Studen'ts.Batk. :(Con'tinu'ed on Page 3) (CDontinued on Page,3p--), Coors.B'o'ycott The Gradua-te Student Council of the UJniversity of Califomi}a's Riverside ca'm pus has endorsed Ilabor's boycott of Coors bee'r.- Ron Balestr'ie.ri, president of the 1,300 member student. assdi6ijan.-3 saidt the GSC voted t-o bovcott all products made by Adolph Coors Co. 'and urged student associa- tions at other Universityo Sai- fornia cam,puses to do 3ireie. The'.; AFTrCIO. Executive Coun- -cil sanctioned. the Coors b6yc6tt in April -1977. after mnembe'rs of *the Brewery Worke'rs D)irectly AfS filiatedlIocal U-nio'n .366 stru k the Golden, Colo., brewery. Executi-ve Coni' ovention Repr Cites".Ecnmc RecovLery Basics The U.S. labor mov.ement en'- de'clared today on the-eve of the Jons'; and devel'opments -in the AF1.rC1O Pr'esident Lsne Kirk- nial, we.pay o urrepects to t he tered its second century with national.- AFL-CIO's convention .Isabor moveme'nt, thei nation- and land said in his 'report -to the -creators'of our movement and w "pride -in the accomplishmnents whichopensMondayin'NewYork.' theworldsincetheJastAF".10O dele'gates. .: .dra.wcouragef-rom their achievi of the last 100 ye'ars coupled with =In its '339-page repo'rt to. the convention in 1979. Inthe'ensuing ID0,years,trade ments,, won it the face of gregre the recognition that it will re- conventi'on, the Council reviewed "No.other institution in 'Amer- 'uniodism. has tasted. bitter- de- er odds,fiercee ,hostility and mov0- quire even greater events since the Federa- commitment, major ica' has been so long tested in. feat, exulted- in-h'ard-won -vieto. rua opposia)n-than we face Uvl. energy and vision to advance tion's founding "in 1881 under -its Adversity as that instrumentfor risad. secured' astogad ay Frm t heir, struggle, M,W labor's cause in theyearsahead," initial t'itle of "Federation of Or- human- rights and social jstice. vitalrokinAmeri'canlife".. gi heconfidience that we WI the AFItIO Esecutltve" Councfl ganxized':Trades and Labor, Un- forged in Pittsburghi in l1," -A-."We celebrate our ete (Cniu -d QhPa 0 41 ARE E.SXS S0.booVuoher 't Initative WAGES 1 TO B'LAME1 Dropped Preview fr- 19U Alan 'Bonsteel, spokesman for Profeessors John Coons and FOR , two University -of California pro- Stephen Sugarmani were promot- SKY W fesso-rs, late last week announced ing the voucher plan in California ROCKE NGI :Su";vIi that they have dropped plans to to rebate parents-of children en- pulsh a private school "voucher" rolled in private schools.a portion CON.Oii initiative for the 1982 California of their- taxes to pay for, educa- STRUCTION l_ ballot. tion. 'Opponents of th.e plan in- Failure' to attract broad polit- cluding the "California AFbIXO COSTS? =_, ical and fin"ancial support, which contend the plan would seriously or the oneargumentmadeover also stopped an attempt in 1979 cripple destroy public and over again by those seeking l to qualify a similar proposal for schools system. repeal of the Davis-Bacon A'ct is l| the ballot in this was cited. In recent testimony before a that high wages are the cause _ state, of inflation in construction. 1.;. Bonsteel served notice that finan- HIouse education committee, Pres-- But. as these figures show. the _R cial' support is developing for a ident Albert Shanker of 'the Amer- truth is that labor costs are ican Federatio-n of Te-achers really the least of the problem _ I bid to place a voucher plan on iconstruction ;- 1 the ballot in 1984. stressed his organization's strong opposi-tion to -any tuition tax cred- it 1egislation. "Tuition tax credits," he said, DOLrOrers U 'would cause irreparable harm to our system of free public educa- Teaters toPa tion. They would encourage divJi- sive forces in our society and lead to a system of educational Ovrimer Wages finance that would work to the United Artists Theater Circuit, detriment of the vast majority of Inc.,, 172 -Golden 'Gate-A;ve., San Atmerican children and their par- Francisco, was ordere to,pay5 ents." maintenance employees $27,489 'ill Acr'oss. the nation in Washing- back wages under a court order ton, D.C., -voters on November 3 obtained by the UJ.S. Department resoundingly 'dfeated a tuition Construction labor won a sig- against the federal. prevrailing the DavisBaconl Act. Over --tb of Labor.- tax triedt, of up to $1,200. A sur- nificant congressional victory on wage law and its counterparts in next-few months, when the DO.)L:'. .The'U.S. D)istrict Court has vey of th cit-y's 137 precincfts November S in its fight to pre- the indivridual states. w'ill be finaling its regulationt issued a consent judgment direct- showed the prop'osal went down serve the integrity. of -t}ie Davis-. 7A -bipartsan 5542 'vote i-n the it is important that all membelrs ing the motion pic'ture theater by a margin of nearly .9 to 1. .Bacon Act from assaults by anti- 'U.S. Senate approved an atnerkd- bf'org.anized labor insst on mairn- .chain to pay the workers. back -Under the D.C. -proposal, not union management inte¢rests. buxt ment to reinstate prevailin&wage- tenance of the legislativre inteifit ovrertime compe'nsation' and'en- only .parentsbut -other relatives remains vigilant against.