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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Reuters)
Newsgroups: clari.news.labor,clari.news.usa.gov.personalities
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Subject: Gingrich calls AFL-CIO election potential disaster
Date: Fri, 27 Oct 1995 14:10:19 PDT
WASHINGTON (Reuter) - House Speaker Newt Gingrich Friday
called the election of John Sweeney as president of the AFL-CIO
union federation a potential disaster.
Sweeney, an insurgent calling for a more militant approach
in union dealings with management, was elected Wednesday in the
78-union federation's first contested election in its 40-year
history.
``The union elections this week were potentially a
disaster,'' Gingrich told a group of investment executives. ``We
do not need a more confrontational, more hostile, more divisive
union leadership.''
Gingrich added: ``We need a union leadership that
understands the world market and understands that improving the
work ethic, and improving the efficiency of labor and getting
people to be productive in competition with the world is the
only way to create jobs in America in the long run.
``And that is exactly the opposite attitude that was
evidenced this week in the AFL-CIO election,'' he said.
Paul Zarembka ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
State University of New York at Buffalo
