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EDITORIAL COMMENT THE COURSE OF REAGANOMICS MUST BE CHANGED When the millions of American voters go to the polls on November 6 to cast a ballot to elect the next president, the results of that voting will l10t only determine the political and economic course the nation will take for the next four years, it will also have a great beuing on the nation's future course for the rcst of this century. To ensure that Amenca as a nation will have a future course of peace and prosperity, the next president and his administration should espouse a course of poUt· ieal and social ideologies that promOte programs of fairness, job opportunities, peace, health and security for a1l citizens-this course was not taken during the past four years under President Reagan and his administration. " Reaganomics" was the course taken creating the largest federal budget deficit in the history of the nation causing American workers, minonues, poor and elderly to suffer economic and social setbacks, while the wealthy and the large multinational corporations prospered from the biggest tax giveaways in history. Workers in and below the middle-class income brackets gamed very httle or nothmg from the unfair Reagan tax cuts, and today workers' realwage earnings have reached the lowest level since 1979. Statistics also reveal that the poverty rate is the highest in almost 20 years and that the middle class has been shrinking under Reaganomics. Also during the Reagan administration, a most powerful and effective pohuca] anti-union crusade has been conducted. The war against Uluons and its members has been spearheaded by President Reagan's conservative administration, aided and abetted by the ultra-conservative, right wing members of Congress. These anti-union actions arc bemg financed by the rich advocates of a " union-free" society. Labormanagement relations are at a low ebb, and many umons have been forced into strikes because employers refuse to bargain in good fnith. Management has been encouraged by the admmistration to break strikes by hning scabs and strikebreakers, which is easy to do today because of the millions of unemployed who are desperate for jobs. Givebacks and concessions, plant hhutdowns, runaway shops and more tactics of union busting arc increasing-all designed to destroy the workers' hfe Ime, the free collective bargammg system. Unemployment compensation, worker's injury compensation, minimum wage and hour laws, pension protection, Social Security, Railroad Retirement, Medicare and Medicaid, all benefits that the trade union movement has brought to all workers of America, are also in danger of being sorely diminished or taken away entirely. The protection and rights given to workers under the National Labor Relations Act to organize and bargain collectively enacted by Congress over 50 years ago is beingdestToycd by PreSident Reagan and his anti-union cohorts. In a further effort to break the backs of unions, the U.S. Department of Labor and the National Labor Relations Board, traditionally neutral agencies both created by Congress to protect the interest of workers, are now active adver· sanes of the American trade union movement. This is Ul11uSt and unfair to aU workers because when union workers' standards are broken down, it affects both organized workers and the unorganized. Members of organized labor are as loyal and dedicated to the progress and future of America as any segment in our SOCiety and have proven It many times when called upon in times of national emergencies. Unions and thelT members want opportunities for progress for themselves and their families. We want iobs, a healthy economy along with social equity and lustice. We arc Willing to do our part and pay our fair share to keep our country a free and democratic nation. However, to obtain these goals the economic and social course of Reaganomics mUSt be changed. Charles H. Pillard lnternational President I I 1 -
• . ~ L t " L OFFlCIAL PUBLICATION OF THE INTERNATIONAL BROTHERHOOD OF ELECTRICAL WORKERS • JOURNAL • NOVEMBER • 1984 I CHARLES H, PILLARD, Editor Volume 83, No. 11 November, 1984 FEJ:lTLIFIES Twelfth District Progress Meeting Held in LIttle Rock, Arkansas 2 Ninth District Progress Meeting Held in Las Vegas, Nevada 5 IBEW Founders' Scholarships 8 International Executive Council Meeling Minutes 9 IBEW Member Helps Open Olympic Games 17 Locals Recognized as Patrons 01 the Arts 17 DEPAFlTIVIENTS Editorial Comments Safety Tips Research and Education Local Lines In Memoriam Reflections ON OUR COVER-The harvest 01 autumn and Thanksgiving ar8 ponrayed in this month's Iront cover. Inside this Issue ale leports 011 two Plogress Meetings, Minutes 01 the International Ex8C\Jllve Councit Meeting, regular leatures, and other imponant stories 01 Interest to our members Inside Front Cover 16 16 21 67 Inside Back Cover PRINTt;O ON UNION ~ PJY>I!:R POSTMASTER, ChIinge 01 __ on FomI1519 -..0"- .... kt ~ Bourl_lIwc or Elooc:v'aI W_, ,,~ F_ s.r.. N W , W...,..,..,... O.C 20005. P\dIIIId .......,-,ty ..., _'" _ POIIagoo I-' .. W-.on. DC...., .cdiIIoneI.my ~ prII:::on \I!>IIotC II!.- _ c--. SA I*" ,... in __. Prirud in U SA. llIII ..IOUAAAJ.. wII not .. held ,__ lor vI8wlI .>PI...... by _~ . TlIII tnt 01_""""'" if dowog _ . .... Oianct. IV.AAY BEXLEY 501 1'1-.0 51 8 W .......... ~30312 FifIn o.ma. ItOIIf.RT MISSEY 2131 59Ih SIt ... Sllcll.-.. ~ 03110-2885 Sid> DiI1na. Tt40MAS H. PURSL.£Y '511 Bayou HorNI Doove ~T .... l1550 s-- o.Itt, OUH O. ~AU P.O_ 90. 31311 s......Or ........ '1302 lOogh11'I DillricI. J AMU It. IIkAVDY 2750 0.-. SIr_ Rocm 12 VoWr'oI. 9rl\III ~ . CMIIrd..I veT 4E9
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