What the Washington Labor Lobbyists Do

What the Washington Labor Lobbyists Do

Here are some of the things one Washington labor lobbyist was trying to do in the final weeks of the 93rd Congress:

• help break the Senate filibuster that was killing the proposed Agency for Consumer Advocacy;

• save from extinction that last fine remnant of OEO’s war on poverty—the community action programs;

• reestablish American commitment to the UN boycott of racist Rhodesia;

• block a bill that would make it almost impossible for minority grou...