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VYING FOR ILL. LABOR'S TOP JOB: FOR THE FIRST TIME IN MEMORY, AFL-CIO ELECTION IS A REAL RACE.(American Federation of Labor -- Congress of Industrial Organizations)(Statistical Data Included)

From: Crain's Chicago Business  |  Date: 8/16/1999  |  Author: MERRION, PAUL

Bored with Gore? Bushed by Bush? Here's a presidential race to get excited about.

An extraordinary struggle now under way for control of the Illinois AFL-CIO is likely to reshape organized labor's political clout in Springfield and union-management relations statewide for years to come.

The upcoming retirement of Donald Johnson, president since 1993 of the nation's third-largest state labor organization, is pitting some of Illinois' most powerful unions against one another ...

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