LABOR
Kirkland Foes Claim Additional Support: Labor leaders seeking to overthrow AFL-CIO President Lane Kirkland claimed support from five more unions, giving them 56% of the votes needed to oust the longtime labor chief. Dissident spokesman Gerald W. McEntee said the revolt is now supported by 21 unions with more than 7.3 million of the labor federation’s 13 million members. Each union has as many election votes as it has members. However, Kirkland’s spokesman scoffed at the dissidents’ claim they will hold a majority of the votes at the federation’s convention in October in New York.
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