Business
Lane Kirkland, an intellectual union bureaucrat who championed liberal politics at home and anti-communism abroad during 16 years as president of the AFL-CIO, died Saturday of lung cancer.
Aug. 15, 1999
Opinion
Postscript: The debate over public sector unions
Jan. 21, 2012
Ever since he took office almost six years ago, AFL-CIO President Lane Kirkland has been gradually getting the 13.2-million-member labor federation to adopt policies and practices far different from those established by his predecessor, the late patriarch of the American labor movement, George Meany.
Nov. 13, 1985
Bernard W.
Aug. 22, 2003
Politics
A witty, rather caustic critic once told the late AFL-CIO President George Meany that union members were becoming more concerned with crabgrass in their lawns than with the impact on their unions of anti-labor laws or union-busting attorneys.
July 23, 1986
Sports
Inglewood Mayor James T. Butts Jr.’
Aug. 15, 2017
Movies
Those nasty Blue Meanies are back and bluer than ever in the new digitally renovated version of the Beatles’ classic 1968 animated musical “Yellow Submarine,” which MGM is releasing this week on video ($20) and DVD ($30).
Sept. 16, 1999
Maurice Zeitlin’s article (Editorial Pages, Jan. 24), “The Growing Assault Against Unions,” was both interesting and informative by asserting that big business has mounted an assault against organized labor.
Feb. 6, 1985
Harry Van Arsdale Jr., the last of the union bosses from the George Meany era who mingled the threat of physical violence with political aplomb to achieve their ends, has died at his home after a long illness.
Feb. 25, 1986
The UCLA Film and Television Archive’s Kid’s Flicks series continues with two, shall we say, funky animated films.
April 29, 1999