The Nation - News from Jan. 18, 1988
An electrical and machine workers’ union has become the first national labor group to formally oppose the nomination of federal Judge Anthony M. Kennedy to the Supreme Court, a union spokesman said. The United Electrical, Radio and Machine Workers of America union said it opposes what it termed Kennedy’s bias against labor and insensitivity on civil rights issues. Amy Newell, the union’s general secretary-treasurer, has urged the union’s 80,000 members to lobby as hard against Kennedy’s nomination as they did against Reagan’s first nominee, Robert H. Bork.
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