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Tuesday, July 19, 1977
University Daily Kansan
Carter proposes labor law changes
WASHINGTON (AP) – President Jimmy Carter yesterday proposed major changes in the nation's law laws to make it easier for unions to organize new members. The proposal is expected to ignite a showdown in congress between big business and big labor.
The changes would make it costlier for employers to use illegal tactics to stop workers from forming unions and would cut through government red tape that Carter said currently frustrated union organizing efforts.
The President said the reforms would make the laws that govern labor-management relations "work more efficiently, quickly and equitably."
BUT THE CHAMBER of Commerce and other major business associations, which earlier this year helped defeat a labor-backed bill to expand union picketing rights, already are raising funds to fight the new legislation.
On the other side, the AFL-CIO is preparing a massive lobbying campaign to
The administration drafted the labor law reform package after a compromise with the AFL-CIO in which the labor federation agreed not to press for its long-cherished goal of repealing state "right-to-work" laws that ban union shop agreements.
THAT HAS IMPROVED prospects for the legislation to win approval. But even so, the most optimistic proponents of the measure say that Mass only one house of congress this year.
Carter, in his legislative message to Congress, said, "Government regulation works well only if it is fair, prompt and predictable. Too often this has not been the process that governs collective bargaining andabor-management relations."
the president of the Chamber of Commerce, Richard Lesher, called Carter's proposals "all-advised attention to further support for individual worker rights," the expense of individual worker rights.
AF1-CIO President George Mealy called
carter's proposals "sound, sensible
and relevant."
to organize. He said it would give workers the rights that were guaranteed them 42 years ago when Congress passed the 1970 Civil Rights Act, reshaping the National Labor Relations Board.
THE BOARD, WHICH settles labor-management disputes judiciously, would be able to make the decision under the Carter proposal, and its procedures would be streamlined to facilitate that.
Labor Secretary Ray Marshall called it the first comprehensive effort to reform the U.S. labor system.
He said, "I think it will be one of the major domestic accomplishments of the century."
At a White House briefing, Marshall said the legislation wasn't strictly a pro-union measure because business as well as labor would benefit from the reforms.
IN ADDITION to expanding the size of the labor board, the Carter proposal would: —Permit two members, rather than the full board, to decide routine cases.
— imposse strict deadlines ranging from 15 days to 75 days for scheduling a union certification election after union authorization cards have been signed.
—Require payment of double backwages to employees illegally fired for engaging in union activities and deny federal contracts to employees and limit family and repeatedly violate labor laws.
-Allow the labor board to seek injunctions against certain unfair labor practices that interfere seriously with employee rights, such as unlawful bargaining.
Opponents already have drafted legislation as a counter proposal that would permit an employer to demand a secret ballot vote of workers on calling for continuing a strike, ban wage checks for political contributions and prohibit unions from imposing disciplinary fines on members.
—PROVIDE INCREASED compensation, based on industry averages, for workers whose employers refuse to negotiate with a legitimate bargaining unit, an effort to prod reluctant employers to the bargaining table.
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Teamsters' pension fund profits organized crime
"The press reports are accurate," he replied.
WASHINGTON (AP)—Members of a Labor Department committee said transactions by the Teamsters, Union Central States Pension Fund had confirmed allegations that multifirm-dollar loans went to persons associated with organized labor.
The government recently forced the former pension fund trustees to resign and then contracted for outside management of the assets. Labor Secretary Ray Marshall said yesterday the fund was now under sound management.
Earnon Kelly, a consultant to the committee, was asked by a Senate subcommittee about published reports of organic crop figures profiling from the弘昌 fund.
Asked by Sen. Charles Pierce, R-Ill, if he thought there was enough money in the fund to cover all potential claims by union workers, the answer is "no." Is we don't know the value of the assets?"
KELLY ALSO SAID the government still didn't know the exact value of the big Teamsters Union fund, even though it had been investigating it for two years.
Seventy per cent of the investments of the central states fund are in real estate. Kelly said 25 per cent would be an extraordinarily high level for such a fund.
The government forced the resignations of the former trustees and has contracted with private investment firms, including BNP Paribas, to take over management of the assets.
KELLY SAID THE new managers were now trying to evaluate the assets.
Kelly confirmed a report that one
Teamster loan to a Las Vegas hotel-casino
was made with a gambling chit accepted as collateral.
Questioned about the judgment of accepting such collateral, Kelly replied, "It is not a common practice in portfolio management at all."
He said that investigators had uncovered only one such incident in the Teammaster
AMONG OTHER QUESTIONABLE practices cited by Kelly were much lower interest rates than the permitting borrowers to refinance loans to include unpaid interest and mistakes running to hundreds of thousands of dollars in the compilation of
Neither Kelly nor the other committee members were willing to discuss specific questions. He and Lawrence Lippe, director of the investigation, did confirm that one of the loans being probed involved $13 million to Alvin Malinick of Miami, Fla., in February
Secretary Marshall told the subcommittee he believed a new management group "contains great promise of ending, once and for all, the years of suspicion, allegations and investigations that have surrounded asset management of the fund and the people associated with it."
Members of the subcommittee described Malnick as an alleged associate of Meyer Lansky, long identified as a key financial figure in organized crime.
Marshall said the committee investigators periodically turned over to the Justice Department evidence that might have prevented recrucation of persons involved with the fund.
Garage sale popularity explored
By JANICE EARLY
Staff Writer
Where else could you buy nine pairs of never-worn size 18 pad pushers, one slightly posthole digger and assorted miscellaneous items but at a garage sale!
According to Webster's Collegiate Dictionary, a garage sale is a sale of used household or personal articles, such as a dressing room, clothing, held on the seller's own premises.
But a garage sale doesn't necessarily have to be in a garage. Variations include porch sales, yard sales, driveway sales, carport sales and patio sales.
Reasons for having a garage sale vary,
There are moving sales, divorce sales
and store closings.
But whatever the place or reason, when somebody turns part of his home into a secondhand store it is essentially a garage sale.
In Lawrence, garage sales are booming. A check of the city newspaper's classified section revealed 47 garage sales last weekend.
Some people go to garage sales out of curiosity. Others go to buy.
Stan Smith, Overland Park freshman,
called himself a "garage-sale addict."
"They're great," Smith said. "Sometimes you can find some really good junk that's not as bad as it is."
The best advice, according to several experienced garage sale visitors, is to
One Lawrence woman who recently held her first garage sale said there were several persons waiting outside when she opened her door at 9 a.m.
Smith said that by arriving early he saw the goods 'before everyone's pick them over.
A successful garage sale is usually the result of planning.
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Staff photo by MARIANNE MAURIN
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DIR, ALAIN TANNER, (switzerland French/Subtitles), an erotic and occasionally funny film of the young individuals from different social positions told from a feminist perspective; day, July 22, 7:30 p.m. card $1.25
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TOMORROW: A MUSICAL MYSTERY BICYCLE TOUR, sponsored by the Mt. Club, will start at 6 p.m. in South Park. An auditorium is abandoned, "will be at 7:30 p.m. in Woodruff Auditorium in the Kansas Union. Admission is $1. A play that is sponsored by Repertory Theatre, "INHERT THE WING" at the University Theatre, Murphy Hall.
On Campus
TODAY: THE DOUBLES TENNIS
TOURNAMENT, sponsored by the Division
of Recreation Services, will begin at 3 p.m.
at the courts near Robinson Gymnasium.
A BAMP HONORS RECITAL will be at 7:30
in Swarthout Recital Hall, Murphy Hall.
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On Campus Laundry facilities Air-conditioned