State AFL-CIO Boycotts Mlacy-'s and Emponum Macy's and Emporium-Capwell operations in San Fra.n- cisco and San Mateo County havre been placed on the boy- cott list of the California Labor Federation it was an- nounced Thursday by John F. Henn'ing, head of the state AFItCIO organization. The boycott action was taken by unanimous vote of the Executive Council of the 1,700,000 member Federation, Henning said. Union members of Local 1100 of the United Food and Commercial Workers have been on strike at Macy's since J-uly 7 and -have been locked out by Emporium-Capwell sinc-e July 1 1. The boycott action refers specifically to the Macy's stores in San- Francisco and its -warehouse in San Mateo County. The action on the Emporium-Capwell covers its tw'o stores in San Francisco. -Laor=Backed Measures Go o enate Foor August 17, 194 Attorney General ; -Ne JuiilCaleg n Song OSHA Appointment~~~ 17- ..z The Finance Committee of the State Senate this week sent to the Senate floor with "do pass" rec- ommendations- the following As- sembly bills which have the sup- WVays & Means Ad-vanced Child C:gr. e. Proposals SlB 1717 by Senator DBavid- Ro_- b e Hi o lly W to,*p*popri- Vol..27 -No. 31 Attorney General John Van de Kamp August 9 notified Alfred H.- Song that he has until September 10 to demonstrate why he should not be removed from the Califor- nia Occupational Safety & Health Appeals Board under "squo war- ranto" proceedings. This was done at the request of the California Labor Federatioyn through its General Counsel, Charles P. Scully, as a result of le- gal action filed by John F. Hen- ning, acting individually and as executive secretary-treasurer, Cal- ifornia Labor Federation, AFLr CIO, for its affiliates. HIenning said this week, "Ap- proval of Song's appointment would invalidate all provisions in California law requiring the pres- ence of labor union members on boards and commissions and like governmental bodie's."- The Stat-e A-FL.C10 contends that Songs's appointment by the Governor was not' legal on the grounds that he occupies a- posi- tion reserved by statute for a member "from the field of labor" and that Song does not qualify un- der the State Labor Cod'e. The Federation's action is based on the fact that Song has been a lawyer and public official since 1962. He is not a member of any labor -organization -nor has he ever been an employee, representative or officer of any labor organiza- tion, the State Federation de- clared. "Quo warranto" is a legal pro-. ceeding to prevent a continued ex- ercise of authority unlawfully as- serted. This. legal remedy belongs to the state in its sovereign author- ity to protect the interests o'f the people as a whole. "Quo warranto" action must be taken -directly by the attorney gen- eral. The Federation requested Van de Kamp to file such action or give it permission to do so. This woulld challenge Song in Superior Court to show by what statutory right he holds the position on the Appeals Board. 4STI;tiTE O)F INDUSTZ1-IAL mports vs. Exports | RELATION LIRiv . 10 ~~~~~~~~AUGB2 2 1% Massive numbers of plant clo- Affairs Council of Northern Cali- clared, impose "quotas, licenses, ires, rising unemployment -and fornia, West Coast Global Per- embargoes, regulatory red tape, S s , Q>#zi. ,.~~~Mies at.Y3U.. i ducmatidn,. the . a sd;e r ar th diectresults' of 6A.Tr PrAtor Pog-ram ~on..tra irrsgecag;ttsfip6 :)vernment's failure to protect tional- & Cross-Cultural Educa- tect their domestic industries and ,merican made products in the tion. workers' jobs from American orld markets, President Albin J. Most foreign nations, he de- competition. These, he said, are Iruhn of the California Labor . used in va'rious combinations. ederation, told a summer insti- Committee OK "But not the United States," iteat Stanford University onAu- __Gruhn told' th'e institute. "The lSt 9. f or F | United States invokes such wap- The institut'e, which lasted for U Rei m nt ons only rarely and then with great vo weeks, was sponsored by the reluctance and a scatter-shot ap- ay Area Global Education Pro- AB 507 by Assemblywoman proach." 'am, a consortium of The World Maxinle Waters (D-L.A.) on He cited t'he nation's "stag- strengthening the University Of gering" foreign trade deficit as ^^, ^ ~~~~~~~California retirement system won proof that "free trade is a gospel' _ T n ~~~~~~p ~approval by the Senate Finance which preaches better than it prac- _ * " ~~~~~~~Committee and was sent to the full tices." . ~~~~~~State Senate for consideration. it "While the rich American mar- > 0^ | S, ~~~~is. backed by the State AFLrCIO. ket is a Mecca, some say a dump- _l t v ;> ~~~~~AB 507 provrides $65 million to ing ground, for the world's ex- cover unfunded liability of the porters,"' he'sa'id, "products such anding here today." system and $12 million to pay in- as shoes, textile's, apparel, -leather, This was the first stop on her creases or toreduce employee con- radios, televis'ions, auto mlobiles, rst "solo trip" to the west as a rbtntthste. CoiudnPg3 port of the California Labor Federation:I AB 1981 by Assemblyman Ri- chard Floyd (D-Gardena) requir- ing employees of skiing establish- ments working in excess of 56 hours weekly be paid not less than l /2 times the regular r'ate. AB 2490 by blyman Art Agnos (D-S.F. Xtiring private employers of 25 or more to ac- commodate any employee who wishes to volunt'aril'y partic4pate in su gra -m t __S,,r ,ewr AB 2970 by Assemblyman Sally gc Tanner (D-E1 Monte) extending Ai civil pen-alties for violators of w ... , ,.~G emission limits and controls of. F toxic air contaminants to include pesticides. tu AB 3421 by Assemblywoman Gloria MoUita - D-L.-A.") increas- t ing penalties and improving pro- B; {(Cotiueloit Puge 4)). v gr Piitiouctin-for -ex- tended day care centers in Califor- nia was nt o w child care bills the Ways & M.eans Committee ap- proved Wednesday and sent to the Assembl floor for action.- The other was SB 1674 by Sena- tor HIerschel Rosenthal (D-L.A.) to expand specified existing child care -and development programs.' Both are supported by the Cali- fornia Labor Federation. vice presidential candidate. After. -hrtalk, there was dialogue be- tween the candidate a'nd members of the audience. In choosing the senior citizens' center for the oc- casion she declared, "I wanted to be with people I felt I could be re- ally comfortable with." The three-year member of the U.S. House of Representatilves did what she called "'a little bragging" about her own efforts in behalf o'f e'lderly women living alone on So-' cial Security. Pointing to Hious,e passage last week of penision legislation she aul- thored, Ferraro said the measu're would preserve an "Sold age of dig- nity for a lot of women in this country." She asked her audience to write the president, urging him to sign the bill into law. F-rom Sacramento,. she flew to San Diego a'nd San J-ose. for a-p- pearances before feaving for Port- land, Oregon, in.midweek.' After Ferra'ro's discussions with -the. senior citizens i'n Sac'ramento, Kay Whit,comb, 74, a retired res-. : taurant worSker, dsar," hn -mos9t women do' -like- her and l think they are'going to put her in." Re z ;4 St,, fir ab>out for the future of the Medi- care program in the corning years. "sIt's a real choice. It's a choice again about the future. Not only for you but -for your children and your grandc'hildren. "President Reagan has said that people paying into the Social Se- curity system today probably won't find that system in place when they're retiring. Well, I'm terrribly sorry but that's not good enough for me and it shouldn't be good enough for any person Representative -Geraldine Fer- raro, Democratic candidate for vice president of -the United States, opened her tour of several Califoyrnia cities this week with an outdoor appearance before 2,000 people, main ly senior citizens, at downtown Sacramento seniors' center. She accused the Reagan Admin- istration of slashing the federal Social Security program at the ex- ,pense of the recipients and warned the Medicare program faces ruin by 1990 " unless we do something to save it." "Now.who do you want to save the Medicare program?" she asked. "Do you want someone who, when it comes time to talk about saving money, immediately goes into cutting your benefits and in- creasing taxes? Or do- you want someone who will take a close look at that system and say, 'Let's do something about curbing the cost of hospital and.doctors and medicine?"' she continued, to the cheers from the crowd. "All you hrave to do is look at the record and look what the ao, nmin ist rat ion, at t empt ed t'o;' -o i n this past year, and look at- wh'at' Fritz Mondale and I are talking The Sacramento Central Labor Council will stage the first annual Tom Kenny Labor Day Picnic, in memory of its late executive offi- cer, according to Executive Secre- tary Wayne Harb olt of the coun- cil. The picnic September 3 -will be from .11:00 a.m. to 6:00 p.m. in William Land Park at Sacra- mento. There will be softball and other games, live music, entertainment and refreshment available to par- ticipants. The picnic site. also in- cludes barbecue pits for '"Labor's Day of Celebration."- Kenny, who died -on May 22, was, in additi'on to -heading the Sacr'amen-to Central Labor C:oun- cil},a -vice pre'sident of thie Califor- nix. L;abor Federation' a vice presi- deit otite-'Muscian's',i lnte-rna- tion' al u n i o"n 'a"n dOditor 'of th-e Sacrameitto Valle'y Union"14 Xbor Guest speakers at the picnic will include U.S. Represen tative Ro- bert Matsui, State Senator John Garamendi and Sacramento Mayor A"nne Rudin. Voter regis- tration, getting o'ut the vote on November 6 'and support of orga- nized labor's pcositi6ns in the up- coming elections will1 be among the topics addressed. Panel- Approves Relocation Fund SB 1757 by Senator Art Torres (D-L.A.) and backced by the Cali- fornia AFIL-C10O was recom- mended fo>r 'Sd6-`,-! ~' and Scnt.to the -full Assembly... &t -Ways A Means iZnit on Wednesday. *^- It wouWd-a'uthorize the' State, Health Se'rvices Depar-tmen't-to pay up to. $LOOQ0 mo'vi'ng expenses to - relo -idividuals dislocated - y ire or explosion of or h-uman exposure to hazardous sub- stances. GERALDINE FERRARO OAR" commu"cMS Ferraro~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Deu i Tom Kenny. Will be Honored by Picnic on Labor Day ITU Election Results Seen As Victory for AFL-CIO Robert S. McMichen's election as president of the Typographical Union over incumbent Joseph Bingel by a nearly 2-1 margin sig- naled the membership's rejection of a proposed merger of the ITU with the un-affiliated Teamsters, it has been announced by national AFLCIO headquarters. TWo other incumbent officers were defeated in the Labor De- partment-supervised recent rerun election. And in San Francisco, U.S. Dis- trict Court Judge Thelton E. Hen- derson's continuance until Sep- tember 17 or a court-imposed injunction blocks a merger refer- endum vote on September 19 that had been planned by the pro- Teamsters board members. The injunction prohibits the union's officers from taking any action to- ward merger with any other union. McMichen, along with Billy Joe Austin of Denver and William Boarman of Washington, op- posed merger with the Teamsters, favoring instead a merger with an AFL7CIO affiliate, the Graphic Communications Union. Labor Backs Stronger Civil Rights The national AFL7CIO is redou- bling efforts to win passage of S. 2568 in the U.S. Congress. This bill would prohibit colleges and other institutions from receiving federal aid if they discriminate against women or minorities. The House of Representatives passed its version of the measure by a 375 to 32 vote. S. 2568 would overrule a recent U.S. Supreme Court decision which held the government can stop funding only the specific pro- gram in which discrimination is practiced. S. 2568 would permit cutoff of aid to the entire discrimi- natory institution. Thus, it would put teeth back into federal civil rights policy. Senator Orrin Hatch (R-Utah) has used filibuster threats to delay action on the bill. AFL-CIO members and sup- porters of strong civil rights are asked by the Federation's legisla- tive department to urge their U.S. Senators to co-sponsor and sup- port S. 2568, the Civil Rights Act of 1984. Page 2 The McMichen slate in a state- ment stressed that its victory shows "the members of the ITU cherish our long democratic tradi- tion and will never allow it to be put up for sale." It proves "that the overwhelming majority of ITU members have no desire to be absorbed by the Teamsters union," the statement said. The statement added, "The Federal Reserve Offers Economic Videos in S.F. The Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco invites those inter- ested to view a series of video- taped programs on the economic outlook, the foreign value of the dollar and the debt problems of lesser developed nations. "Economic Briefing" will be each Monday and Wednesday at 12:15 p.m. and 12:40 p.m. They will be projected in the bank's in- terpretive center at the east end of the lobby of the institution, lo- cated at 101 Market Street. On Thursday, the debt problem of lesser developed nations is ex- amined on the videotape. The causes and consequences of the growing strength of the U.S. dol- lar are shown on Fridays. Computerized graphics will ac- company the various showings. The complete schedule for the two daily programs are Monday, "An Economic Briefing;" Tles- day, "The Fed: Our Nation's Cen- tral Bank;" Wednesday, "An Eco- nomic Briefing; " Thursday, "International Borrowing;" and Friday, "How Goes the Dollar?" For further information, call the bank's public relations depart- ment at (415) 974-3234. vote indicates a clear interest in pursuing merger" with GCIU, "our most logical, natural ally. We plan to pursue and, we hope in time, to consumate the merger with GCIU, or if that is not possi- ble, with another union in the mainstream of U.S. and Canadian labor." The Labor Department an- nounced the preliminary vote to- tals on July 27 and gave the candi- dates until August 6 to file any challenges. If challenges are filed, the La- bor Department is to rule on them within 30 days. If there are no challenges, the vote tallies will be certified and the officers sworn into office prior to the union's September convention. The Labor Department's pre- liminary totals gave McMichen 28,167 votes to Bingel's 15,296. In the vice presidential elections, Austin defeated incumbent Ro- bert L. Wartinger, 24,157 to 17,237; Boarman topped incum- bent Raymond Brown, 23,918 to 17,699 and incumbent Alan J. Heritage, who ran unopposed for the slot reserved for a Mailer member, received 29,757. The International Brotherhood of Carpenters & Joiners is intens- ifying boycott and corporate pres- sure activities against the Louisi- ana-Pacific Corporation follow- ing several controversial elections at struck LUP installations. At nine of the 17 struck L.P plants in California and the Pa- cific Northwest recently NLRB elections are claimed to have de- certified the Lumber Production & Industrial Workers (LPIW), a Carpenters affiliate. The union has challenged the le- gality of the decertification in a federal court lawsuit. It maintains that Wilford Johansen, acting general counsel of the National Labor Relations Board, acted ille- gally in revoking a standing NLRB order, thus paving the way for the elections. The standing order in- volved a "bad faith bargaining" complaint by the union against the employer. Patrick J. Campbell, interna- tional president of the Carpenters, United Labor Action Beats Communications Union Buster William C. Demers, vice presi- dvnt, Communications Workers of America, District 11, Los Angeles, was thanked recently by Jim Smith, coordinator of the La- bor Community Committee Against Union Busting at the Olympics, for the part the CWA played in bringing victory to the American Communications Asso- ciation (Teamsters) over MCI. A communications industry gi- ant, MCI is non-union except for its Western Union International division, which the Teamsters have represented for 40 years. MCI began attempts to force the union out almost immediately af- ter it acquired WUI two years ago. It. made demands for drastic wage and benefit cuts when the contract expired and refused to extend the old contract during negotiations. The strike followed. MCI held an exclusive contract for international communications at the recent 1984 Olympics in Los Angeles. The union engaged West- ern Labor Organizing Project, a pro-union consulting group, which mobilized widespread sup- port for the strikers. Another ingredient in the work- ers' victory included rejection of MCI at the Democratic conven- tion earlier in San Francisco. Many AFL.CIO unions en- Approves Boycott of El Al Air in IAM Strike The AFI7CIO has announced a nationwide boycott of El Al Israel Airlines. This action resulted from a request for boycott from the In- ternational Association of Ma- chinists and Aerospace Workers which struck the airline March 16, according to John Mara, secre- tary-treasurer, Union Label & Service Trades Department. The IAM has charged El Al of- ficials with refusal to bargain in good faith. El Al officials have de- manded a three-year wage freeze, the right to contract out work, across the board cuts in vacations and the elimination of work rules vital to job security. According to the IAM, the air- line has imported strikebreakers from Israel and hired special secu- rity guards. "All these practices are typical of an increasingly prevalent sce- nario wherein a company attempts to break a well-established union," Mara said. dorsed the strike, contributed funds and boycotted MCI. A sig- nificant number of community groups joined the Labor-Commu- nity Committee Against Union Busting. Over 400 individuals had pledged to support union picket- ing at MCI's Olympic facilities and in the face of this disruption, MCI backed down. CWA President Glenn Watts notes that AT&T Communica- tions at Western Union Metrocall are the only unionized long-dis- tance telephone operations in the nation. Eventual organization of MCI by the CWA will be at- tempted, said Jeffrey Miller, CWA associate director of public rela- tions. "With continued united action, we can turn the tide of union bust- ing and build a stronger, larger and more united labor move- ment," Smith told Demers in his letter of appreciation. AFL-CIO Asks Help to Halt 3 Fiscal Bills At a recent press conference, President Reagan urged support for an "enterprise zone" urban policy. Enterprise zones are tax cuts for corporations located in certain urban districts. Adoption of the policy could increase the na- tional deficit another billion dol- lars over three years. At a cost of another billion dol- lars annually, the President also has asked Congress to pass tuition tax credit legislation. Thus, while public schools suffer from Reagan budget cuts, the AFLrCIO legisla- tive department says, he wants to give tax cuts to parents who send their children to private schools. Finally, the President has asked Congress to approve a constitu- tional amendment to force bal- anced federal budgets. None of the four budgets he has proposed since 1981 has been balanced. In fact, deficits are about three times those of the previous administra- tion. The AFLrCIO is urging its mem- bers to contact their U.S. Senators and Representatives to oppose the Reagan enterprise zone, tuition tax credit and balanced budget constitutional amendment legisla- tion. PROTECT VOUR JOB BUy American said, "Louisiana-Pacific, with the help of one of the most outra- geous NLRB decisions in history, is trying to put our local unions out of business by sponsoring de- certification elections that are at best immoral and in many cases patently illegal." Campbell went on to affirm that his international was "serving notice that the battle has only be- gun." Around 1500 members of the LPIW and the Woodworkers have been on strike against LUP since June 24, 1983. The company re- jected an industry-wide settlement and, Campbell charges, set out "to bust the union and bring wages in the region to the level of the slave wages that are paid workers in the non-union South." The company has about 100 lumber mills, many of them in the southern U.S. a national boycott of L,P products has been endorsed by the national AFLICIO. The California Labor Federation pre- viously had placed the company's California operations on its "We Don't Patronize" list. The AFLCIO boycott is being actively conducted in 20 states where some 400 lumber and build- ing product retailers are being picketed. August 17, 1984 Anti-L-P Activity Continues, Union Challenges Elections LOOK FOR THU UNWION3 LABEL UNION LABEL AND SERVICE TRADES DEPARTMENT AFL CIO Publisher's Notice The California AFLCIO News (ISSN: 0008-0802) is published weekly except during the weeks of the Thanksgiving, Christmas and New Year's holidays by the Cali- fornia Labor Federation, AFLP CIO, 995 Market Street, San Fran- cisco, Calif. 94103. Second chss postage paid at San Francisco, Ca- lif.-Subscription: $3.50 a year. USPS Publication Number 083- 400. John F. Henning, executive secretary-treasurer; D. Barrett, ed- itor. POSTMASTER; Send ad- dress changes to: California AFLP CIO News, 995 Market St., Suite 310, San Francisco, CA 94103. 0 - - - W.0 fto - - - 9 I I r Imporftsvg., Exports f _ ' b_ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ _ American Labor Sufferinzglqm Under U.S. Trade Policies~~~,% 6 Public WVorks Proposals To Full Senate Six billls. carried by Assembly- man Richard Floyd (D-Gardena) for the State Building & Construc- tion Trades Council and sup- ported by the California Labor Federation this week were given "do pass" recommendations by the State Senate Finance Commit- tee, sending them to the full Sen- ate for action there. All deal with state or local government works. They include: AB 3677 requiring the Califor- nia State University system and the UIniversity of California, and other public agencies awarding public works contracts to main- tain labor law compliance pro- grams. AB 3678 adding to the State Public Contracts Code a defini- tion of the term "lowest possible bidder." AB 3680 providing any contrac- tor on a public works project in willful, intentional or grossly neg- ligent violation of the public works law be ineligible to bid on or receive any public works con- tract for up to three years. AB 3681 -increasing employers penalties for failure to pay prevail- ing wages on public works pro- jects from $25 to $S0 per worker per day for non-compliance and permitting workers who have been underpaid to pursue court actions on their own. AB 3682 requiring the State Di- vision of Labor Standards En- forcement to prepare a notice list- ing requirements of public works lab6i laws and to make it available to contractors for job site posting. AB 3683 requiring all state and local public. agencies to maintain programs to ensure that public works contractors comply with state labor laws.~ Panel Approves Fed Bill on Doctor Choice The Assembly Ways & Means Committee this week gave a "do pass" recommendation to SB 1510 by State Senator Bill Greene (D- L.A.). The bill dealing with free- dom of choice of doctors in work- ers' compensation cases, was introduced for the California La- bor Federation. It was sent to the Assembly for action. SB 1510 provides that employ- ers must post a notice to employ- ees of their right to have their own doctors in such cases. It also pro- vides that employers have forms available upon which workers can supply data concerning their per- sonal physicians. Prior notification by the em- ployee of doctor's name and other information is required under ex- isting law. State VVorker Health Plan Bill to Floor SB 1777 by Senator Ralph C. Dills (D-Gardena) was approved by the Assembly Ways & Means Committee on Wednesday and sent to the Assemb ly floor for ac- tion. Supported by the State AFL, CIO, SB 1777 would require the Public Employees' Retirement System to establish a committee to review and recommend policy to the board on provision of state employees' health care benefits. It also would authorize PERS to provide 'optional benefits to employees and annuitants, pursu- ant to a memorandum of under- standing, and authorize the board to contract with provider organi- ,zations or to establish its own plan for employee health services. August 17, 1984 (Continuedfrom Page I) steel, tires, ceramics, plastics, cer- tain wines, and even Ataris have flown their domestic coops in this country to hatch their products overseas." Since July, 1980, according to Gruhn, the American dollar has appreciated more than 50%7 against the currencies of our ma- jor trading partners. "This appreciation is no differ- ent from a 50%o tax on exports and a 50% reduction in the price of im- ports," the Federation president explained. Despite federal "trade adjust- ment assistance" for workers, Gruhn declared that "the millions of American workers whose jobs were lost to imports are in wors'e shape than ever. Now they have neither jobs nor decent benefits." "What happened to the Trade Adjustment Act" to assist import- displaced workers? he asked. The Reagan Administration, he ex- plained, became alarmed at the cost of the program and its "budget cutting surgeons" moved to slash TAA benefits." He quoted the National Council to assure a strong U.S. ship build- ing base; v F-xport promotion as an im- portant function of trade policy; v Policies to maintain and re- establish domestic electronic and television industries.X "The Reagan Administration's emphasis on the negotiation of bi- lateral 'investment treaties," Gruhn said, "to ease the export of American capital should be redi- rected. A new emphasis should be placed on furthering the interests of the UJ.S. economy and U.S. workers, not multinational enter- prises. " "A successful industrial policy to rebuild American industry will require the active participation and support of all segments of the American economy, " he con- cluded, "including business, labor and government. .. Fair trade that provides American workers and vindustries fairness, assistance and relief in the domestic and world trade markets is an essential ingre- dient to achieving" the basic goals of full employment and balanced economic growth. on Economic Opportunitywich has examined these matters in de- tail and concluded that "losing a job can set in motion a vicious cy- cle of other personal catastrophes that are much more difficult to handle for people who lack -both the material and the emotional re- sources that a decent, stable job provides." As remedies, he cited AFLrCIO policies calling for: Legislation to tighten and streamline the law designed to re- lieve industries and workers in- jured by imports and laws dealing with unfair international trade practices; Domestic content laws to help assure that the U.S. remains a pro- ducer of motor vehicles; v Steel import quotas and modernization of the domestic steel industry; v Action to reduce the job- destroying influx of garments, textiles and footware now flood- ing American industry; v Legislation to revive the U.S..maritime industry to sub- stantially increase the portion of cargo carried in U.S. flagships and In testimony August 9 before the U.S. Senate Finance Commit- tee on enacting a proposed "flat tax" and doing away with the fed- eral progressive- income tax struc- ture, Rudy Oswald, chief econo- mist for the AFL=CIO, put the organization on record in opposi- tion. Oswald termed an increase in federal revenues essential and said it could be achieved in large part by a restoration of fairness to the tax system. INTEREST He noted in his Senate testi- mony that high interest rates stem- ming in part from the large federal Comparable VWorth Bills to Assembly The Assembly Ways & Means Committee this week gave ap- proval to three State Senate bills, backed by the California Labor Federation, on wages based on comparable worth of female- dominated job areas with male- dominated ones. These measures are now before the full Assembly for action. The three include: SB 711 by Senator Diane Wat- son (D-L.A.) to require the Fair Employment & Housing Commis- sion to report yearly to the Com- mission on Status of Women's comparable worth task force on complaints received on pay in- equities and sexual harass'ment. SB 1701 by Senator David Ro- berti (D-Hollywood) to create a Commission on Pay Equity to gather and evaluate data on com- parable worth for state and uni- versity empjoyees, to identify pay inequities found. SB 2249 by Senator Bill Lock- yer (D-Alameda) to require com- munity college districts provide the their state board of governors data on salaries of female-domi- nated jobs and to negotiate with employee representatives on -ad- justment of any inequities. deficit has been a major factor in the overvaluation of the dollar. Tax changes to reduce the deficits would help bring down interest rates as;svell, he-suggested.~ On tax approaches, Oswald acknowledged the superficial ap- peal of an expenditures tax, but stressed that it would perpetuate inequities since it would be pri- marily the wealthiest individuals who would escape taxation of money they save or invest, while persons who must spend most of their income would bear a propor- tionately heavier burden. The same reasoning, he said, applies to proposals to tax every- one at the same rate or impose a value added tax, which is common in Europe but "merely another variant of a sales tax."' Oswald praised many of the features of the tax bill sponsored by Sen. Bill Bradley (D-N. J.), and Richard A. Gephardt (D-Mo.), which would simplify the tax structure and set up three rates for individuals, depending on in- come, at 14%o, 26%o and a top of 30%7. The standard deduction would be raised so that a fami'ly of four would not owe income tax unless its annual income exceeded $11,200 and deductions could be applied only to-ward the 14%!7 tax rate. The Bradley-Gephardt bill would also set a flat 30%o corpo- rate tax rate and scale back many of the added tax benefits business get. INCREASE He expressed concern that the proposed changes would only raise the same amount of revenue as the present system. "A substantial increase -in tax revenues" is need to bring down the huge deficit, Oswald noted. "People with higher incomes can afford to pay higher rates and shouild be required-'for do so," he urged. Oswald called instead for a "Imajor tax reform initiative that would close loopholes that favor business and the rich, reverse some of the more unfair and un- wise features of the 1981 law, keep income as the tax base and retain a progressive rate structure." The 1981 tax law, sponsored by the Reagan~ Administration, pro- vided across-the-board federal tax cuts. ACCOUNTANTS At the same hearing, the Ameri- can Institute of Certified Pu'blic Accountants also questioned that the "flat tax" -one rate for every- one, regardless of income-would make the average taxpayer's re- turn easier to prepare. Among other things, Albert B. Ellentuck, chairman of the CPA's tax division, pointed out that many presently tax-exempt items be reported as taxable income un- der the proposal. He specifically cited worker fringe benefits among these. "We are astonished that so manifest a benclimark of fairness as taxation by ability to pay is be- ing seriously proposed for the scrap heap," Ellentuck said. The CPA spokesman said that several laws passed since 1974-will simplify the tax code once they and the regulations that interpret them are fully in effect. Ellentuck urged "all responsi- ble parties to actively discuss and promote refinements which will remove large numbers of individu- als and small businesses from the code's more complex provisions." Other witnesses agreed the present income tax system is loaded with loopholes and felt an overhaul is needed. However, there was no consensus on what kind of a system should be put in its place. Elder Seeks 'Greater Us of UliSe Ships Assembly Joint Resolution 125 introduced by AssemblySman Dave Elder (D-Long Beachypassed the Assembly August 8. The resolu- tion calls upon the President and-.. the Congress to take actions which would strengthen the maritime fleet of the United States. Specif'ically AJR 125 calls for all U.S. overseas military cargo to be carried in U.S. Flag vessels bu'ilt in U.S. shipyards by next January L' The resolution also calls for an in- crease in the percentage of all U.S. overseas cargo to be carried in U.S. Flag vessels built in the United States. In his statement to the Assem- bly, Elder pointed out that the U.S. merchant fleet had shrunk from 1,008 vessels in 1960 to 553 ships in 1983, while the Soviet Union fleet had grown from 873 ships in 1960 to 2,449 in 1983. AJR 125 has gone to the State Senate for consideration.- As the Elder resolution ad- vanced at Sacramento, the Seafar- ers' International Union, AFL, CIO, was combatting a resolution in the U.S. Senate with an oppos- ing aim, attacking cargo prefer- ence laws in this country. Senate Concurrent Resolution 56 by Sen. Roger Jepsen (R-Iowa) explicitly would oppose expansion of the cargo preference laws in this country. It is before the U.S. Sen- ate Merchant Marine subcommit- tee. The SIU strongly opposes the- resolution's concept, regarding cargo preference laws essential to rebuilding the U.S. merchant ma- rine. While this is now in the form of a resolution, which does not have the force of law, SIU is in- vesting much energy into defeat- ing Jepsen's proposal since it is a simple parliamentary ~matter to convert such a resolution into an amendment on another piece of legislation. -State Help on Rentals is Moved A bill by Senator Leroy Greene (D-Sac ramento) to increase fund- ing of the State Rental Housing Construction Agency, SB 2126, cleared the Assembly Ways & Means Committee on Wednesday and was sent to the Assembly floor. It has the support of the State AFLrCIO. SB 21i6 would appropriate $120 million to the agency for var- ious housing projects, including property rehabilitation and hous- ing for low income renters. Geo. Mock, Teamster V. P., is Retired George Mock, first interna-- tional vice president of the Team- sters, retired August I after 60 years with the union. Mock is a Sacramento resident. He was act- ing president of the international briefly in 1981. Mock's jurisdiction covered California, Nevada, Arizona, New Mexico, Colorado and Wyo- ming. At the gigantic United Labor Parade July 15 in San Francisco, Mock was one of the three, main speakers at the rally following, along with Lane Kirkland, AFILr CIO president, and Jim Herman, president of the ILWU. Master of ceremonies Jack. Henning, executive officer of the State AFI rCIO, said of Mock, "Many of us will remember him as being one of the bulwarks of the AFL when the Teamsters were part of the AFL in California." Page3 6 9 0 9 9 40h, - %ON .The -Am eri-ca'n F-c ration: Of Trafrlc Controller's strike and -dis- Govern-ment. Employees, AFL, ba'ndne'nt in.- 198 1, there are CIO, this week.apikounced effort-s "mnore- flights than before, they are underway toe.ft a unit, of-its are using less people than be fore, AmeTican Air. Taffie Controllers. a.nd they are usi'ng the same equip- Council in the San Francisco area-. met as before." - DavidKushnr, oganiztion Joe Dallasio, a New Yor'k con- direcor ofAFCE nd rpreet troller 'and leader in the new atives of the Air Line Pilots Asso- uinzto oeet ad ciaion loalairtrafi cotroles "We're talking here 10-hour days$, and acontrller rom te New six' days a week. Some of the issues YorkContol ente ar in ?l~ we are talking about, also, are fornia this week in connection letvrfomPTOthsa- with he nazonwle orgnlzln fing, the equipment, the traininog. dr'ive on behalf of the air traffic But today the staffing level Is 25.o controllers. I~~~~e'ss than before 'while air traffi'c is Organlizing activity is currently back to or exceeding prestrike lev- underway in other California cen- els." ters, including Los Angeles, Fresno and Oakland. All this has increased airport . Peitins ave lredy een congestion, flight del-ays and filed 'in several areas throughout ner-oiion s ovmers ofirportsothe -the nation including New York erclionovraprt,}y TRACON,.,New York Ce'nter, At- maintain. lanta Center, Tampa Tower, At- lantic City Tower, Providence San Diego:-- Tower and Bradley Tower. The AATC" is formaIlly trucj; L b r oni Line Pilots have endorsed, the Aids Job l movement and agreed to lend as-. si'stance in this organizational ef- Unemployed person's, -including fort. former -employees -of Vons, Fed AFGE's drive to organize the Mart' Van Camp, and ioca'l ship- controllers follows communica- yrsare being sought'-byhSa tion with controllers all over th6 Diego-imperial Couxifties'Labor nation who declare they are in- Councilfor possiblej'ob retrai'ning creasingly- concerned about the and free -placement C*dvice sup- ability of the system to' safely ported by the San Diego -Private guide airplanes through the skies Industry Council. ,untder present conditions. The program is designed - tp,, as- Increas-es itn, a'ir :t!ifflc, com-: sist persons who-are unbable",tor re brned with, limited experience and turn to their usuat-occupatoM be- inadequate staffing in the towers cas ofpatclsrs'mass and management, -relations pro4- layoffs -or :long-rernl W_ lems have pl'aced an ificrediNemetMoeha , W es strain on working controllers, wr eiae S-tedsn Kushner expl'ained. AFGE's na- of the Van -Camnp C-tho tional organizing,efforts are in re- snshv e ;d't-oa sponse to the'se problems. shipyatrds.anid,Fed * -, '--There are an estflnated- 500 c'on- -centt>y Non. trollers' in San Fran'cisco Bay Area off apprxmtl !?fF ' centers. Such pison arv:t In a press conference this week -con-tact th e -San W96"**era in San Francsco, Kushner pointed Cute.Al orC Co1tW--dt.g- out that'since the Professioa r (619) 291-2803. Ime Walte r. F. Mondale, AFLCI0 endorsed'Democratic nominee for president of the U.-S.,- rece'ntly got a presidential welcome -from en- thusiastic union members in Phil- adelphia and Toledo as he ham- mered a'way at the credibility gap that has -thrown.-the R'epublican -campaign into disarray.Y Continued fumbling by Presi- dent Reagan, Vice President Bush and their assorted official spokes- men on the post-election tax issue added fuel to Mondale's charge that the Reagan Administration is hiding its tax increase proposals until after the election. Mondale challenged Reagan's. denials and half-denials in a speech to thousands of flag-wav- ing delegates to the Communica- tions Workers convention in Phil- adelphia. Was it just coincidence, he ques- tioned, that Reagan has asked that the results of a tax study be given -to him in December-after the election-rather than in Septem- ber or October? Does Reagan's nose grow like that 'of Pinocchio when he doesn't tell t-he truth, Mondale wondered. Americans are entitled to know how -the rival presidential candi- dates propose to deal with. the na- tion's economic pr6blems and the deficit before the election, -he in- sisted. "The debate is not about Fma-le State WVorkers Paid Les Than Men A survey completed recently -by the State Personnel Board shows the averagte female state worker still earns significantly less than the average male. The average woman in state .service earned Sl,645 a month during the year ended in March, 1984, compared with $2,256 for the average male state worker. In the previous year, the data showed the average woman state worker drew $1,634 and the average male $2,128 monthly. The board also found that al- though the number of Hispanics among full-time state employees increased slightly in the reporting period, Hispanics remained the most under-represented minority on the state payrol.11 On the other 'hand, Blacks, Asianls, Filipinos -and Native Americans all had larger share-s of the state -payroll thanl their repre- sentation in the state's total work force.-- 'Executive Tp $32 Hourly Members of Local 11l23, Steelworkers, in Canton, Ohio, did a little arithmetic on the an- nual salaries reported for the exec- utives of the Timken corporation. Based. on 50 'forty-hour work weeks, it showed S109.28 hourly for the president of the company, $132.20 an hour for the executive vice.president and $67:05 an"houlr for t-he board 6hairthan. Earli&w, before the, Amalgama-' .-ted Ckehin$ & Textile Workers conventibn in Florida, Mondale outlined bis program for the fu- ture-,- fo'cusing particularly dn problems facing' 'working people and their famnilies. He s'ai'd theTe: 'q have talked to families who .are worried- about being swamped -with fo-reign imports. This prob- lem is no longer ju'st a minor prob- lem in American life. We must find an answer, that resto-res. America as the preeminent com- petitive economic power on earth so that when there are -jobs, the jobs art here; when there is grow- .ing prosperity, the -growing pros- perity -is found hvre; and where there is a future, the future will be found here in Ameriea for our ,children and their children. "A president should stand up for job safety. We cannlot trade safety for profits. The Occupa- tional Safety and Health Act, the minimum safety laws and so on are designed to protect people's health and people's lives. I will be .on the side of safety and not on th-e side of those who would risk worker's health and livres. "I have watched the worried faces of our senior citizens-wor- ried about their Social Security, worried about their Medic'are, worried in some cases about hav- ing- enough to. eat. WALTER F. MONDALE bookkeeping. It is about people and jobs, the futu're and our chil- dren."'American's can face up to the truth and do'n't have to be shielded from the- facts, Mondale said in a speech repeatedly punc- tuated by applause and ovations from the CWA members. The setting- was different when Mondale spoke to union dockd- workers in Toledo-on the shores of Lake Erie with a Liberian tanker rumbling in the -back- ground. But the message, given in shirt sleeves in th-e sweltering mid- suinmer weather, was similar., He'll do it -by "voodoo econom- ics," Mondale joshed, playing on the phrase that Bush used against Reagan- four years ago when they were comnpeting fo'r the Republi- can nomination. Prison inmates should receive education-~related job training but not be put to work making prod- ucts that compete with goods pro- dIu-e'd-by rea6,the-AFL.-CIO urged at a recent U.S. House hear- ing. Federal law bars most prison products from being sold in inter- state commerce. But the law was m odified -in 1979 to- allow a limited number of demonstration pro- jects. These -exceptions were sup- posed to assuire payment of pre- vailing' wages and be undertaken in consultation with local labor groups. In Califor-nia, too, organized la- bor recently has been battling azbuses of the use of county jail and state prison in'mate workers, employed-under conditions far be- low st'andard conditions and pay, in competition with free working men and women.- -AMCIO Economist John. I-. Zalusky-told a U.-S. House of Rep- resentati,ves Judiciary subcommit- tee-rth-at the de'monstration pro- grain -has "been abused and regu,-l lati'otis sho'uld be tightened, not loosened. Prisoners employed on ap- proved projects have commonly been pa id less than prevailing wages, Zalusky testified. He noted that the first demonstration pro- ject undertaken involvedNt'he reo- pening of an Arkansas meat pack- ing plant that had empl'oyed union mem-bers before it closed. The newv work-force -was made lip. of con 1 cts, and Zalusky termed -the ven .ue a. clea'r violation of- the emplo.yment ptovisions' of the 1979 la'w. "WOrkerS and their unions sup- port the rehabilitative..aims of prison job pilogramts,'' Za'lusky *testified. '"They- ex'pect and de-- serve changes in th.e law to protect their own jobs thfrough enforce- ment provisions -strong ejiough to .prevent violations."9 During the past year, a coa 'ition of 40 women's organizations re- presenting IS million .women na- tionally has Ilaunched a national cooperative bi-partisan voter reg- istration and turn-out the -vote ef- fort, geared to the November 6 GReneral Election. The AFI_CI0 is participating in t-his coalition through COPE, Kathleen Kinnick, women's activi- -ties direotor, California Labor Federation, told the third annual western regional Summer Institute for Union Women' last Friday at the University of California, Santa, Cruz. The institu'te was jointly 'sponsored byr the De'part- ment of Education, AFL-CIO, and the University & College La- bor Education Associatiton. "'AFT--CIO union women lead- ,,ers working with COPE," she em- pOhasized, "have formed a nation- 41dxe committee' to mobilize union women'9s participation in the 1984 electio'n." -Th'is committee, called "AFL. CIO.Women Working for '84,"' h.as the follow'ing goals. V deducate union women on campaign issues important to their -interesti; ' - ' v To raise 'the leve'f of candi-- d-ie aware-ness on"is'sues concern- ing w rkiaX w..ome " ' : Le a-or0i ft-w get-o i-the- vote of union wome'n in the 1984 GIcnrl Eloctiop; St To educate un ion women on how the 'Reagan Administrat;ion policies ha.ve adver'sely 4ffected their interests; and' vTo generaO'te sup.port for the. Walter Mondale and. Geralditid Ferraro tick-et -among unton women and their. families. The committee -fu'nctions as a. uni't of COPE and ton-fines its ac- tivities to Po.litical ..d ucat ion, voter registratio'n -and -v'oter.-turn- out directed to AVLrC.IC -union women members and the'ir fami- lies, Mrs. Kinnick explained. C it-.~ ing a list of materials avrailabl'e for guidance in these activities, she urged her listeners their i'ndividual unions should establish their own committees and work- with their. local central labor councils' Com- mittees on Political Education. "'You should be recruiting among your own memberships- volunteers to assist the central la- bor coulncils' COPEs with tele. phone bank work, mailings -and the multitude of other acti' ities necessary to -asuccessful political effort," -she stress'ed in conclu-. sion. "Women. cannot- afford, men cannot . fford,.-this nhation cannot afford four more. years -of the Reagan, Administration.- What women.'do on election day 1984-wifl make-the critimal -iffr ence. Let's make the. .differente' Let's win one for us thtpne." tn-her talk, Mrs.^Kntid an insdic'tment of numerou's-counts against the-l]00f,.niffift> tion. "so -far as w'omen are coni - cerned":.- V- It .led opposition to -tbe Eqtial, -Rights Amenidmt. to the federal constitution; .V It .cut the staff. of the-Equal Employment OpKportunities Com- nmissi'on -sta 90 ff by 900 w h leaves some. 8,000 cases of &Veged,--dis-- crimination ulnproces-sed this year; :lt' cut b;ack on e.very-p W".am assisting' -el.derly women., even thotigh 73%o of 'the elderly poor are women; v -its appointees have consist- ently opposed t-he comparabile worth c oncept of salary setting based on equal pay -for w4rk o'f comparable value; V It has' attempted systiematic roll-backs -in civil rights proDtec- tfons for all Americans #".V,4 colld-4 go % .,-she said, "'but time simply doesn'.t-,permit., T-o -say . the least,-t Re d Mi.nistration has a, deporable re- cord." She also. cited a Wg list. of pO'si1- tive,activity. by thel rnfria -La- bor Federafion,' uLC)nit state I eg-lative and --oiticat. -pro- .gram$ fr-er. Ue s o fmt'in -general.and-rade union womnen in- platitcul. . - Besik a ist .'union work- shop. -ranging from4abor hist-ory . through organizing to grievance -an;ding and health. aind, safety is- -sues for. union womn occupied the, five.;ayconftrence August 179 1984 cedi stat .Mo COT and Enig PaV4 ModlIhalnet PRson Labr.8 Abusesw Loca, Sate,Fecera Unio Woe aroble For Election~a in Nv (Continuedfrom Page l) where.S substanktial tnumbers,---A ures for handling violations of no-Eglhsean8poi r Le wages and hors laws. inovd AB 394.5 by Assem'blyxnan LB 3422 by As'sembitwomazn Floyd restricting tdeom unicaj ilina requiring certain L'abor tiosepyrsfm unluh mmissioner's not'ices in wage ized m on"itoring of employee com- Ihour law matters beprne to mi kin?gp srlmt glish and -other langua g-es" purposes.4