Consider Displaced Workers

From: The Washington Post | Date: January 18, 1987| Author: | Copyright information

Secretary of Labor Bill Brock may be the most talented politician in the Reagan Cabinet and is almost certainly the most unheralded and under-utilized. But he was chewed out the other day by a senior White House official.

Brock's "sin" was that he did not categorically reject a plant closing notification bill in testimony before the Senate Labor Committee, but rather suggested that such a measure should be "a matter for negotiation" between the administration and Congress. That was not sufficiently hard-line for some of the economic militants in the White House, whose dogmatic conviction ...

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