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Lane Kirkland

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Lane Kirkland (Joseph Lane Kirkland) , 1922-99, American labor leader, president (1979-95) of the American Federation of Labor and Congress of Industrial Organizations (AFL-CIO), b. Camden, S.C. He was an executive assistant (1960-69) to AFL-CIO president George Meany and (1969-79) its secretary-treasurer. Succeeding Meany as president of AFL-CIO in 1979, Kirkland made consolidation of the labor movement a major goal and oversaw the reentry of the United Automobile Workers (1981), Teamsters (1988), and United Mine Workers (1989) into the organization. A staunch anti-Communist, he was... Read more

Joseph Lane Kirkland
Joseph Lane Kirkland Joseph Lane Kirkland (born 1922) served as a leader in the American labor union movement...equal opportunities for women, and a strong defense. Joseph Lane Kirkland was born in Camden, South Carolina, on March 12, 1922, the son... Read more

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...president in 1979. During Kirkland's tenure (1979–95), the AFL-CIO's membership and political influence waned due to shrinking employment in the U.S. manufacturing sector. (Joseph) Lane Kirkland (Joseph) Lane Kirkland (Joseph) Lane Kirkland Read more

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	Lane Kirkland and the Tides of Time; AFL-CIO Chief Retires as Labor Movement Struggles to Remake Itself ; Lane Kirkland retired as president of the AFL-CIO yesterday...the 13 million-member labor federation, Kirkland fought the bosses, communism, cancer and...the Republicans who helped force him out. Kirkland, 73, retired under pressure. He didn't... Read more
	Obituary: Lane Kirkland ; LANE KIRKLAND was always a rather...Solidarity owes a lot to Lane," his friend Henry Kissinger...straw, perhaps, was Kirkland's failure in 1993 to...and, within 18 months, Kirkland's career was over. Joseph Lane Kirkland, trade unionist: born... Read more
	Lane Kirkland.(Commentary)(Editorials) ; The passing of Lane Kirkland at age 77 closes an important...Shanker, David Dubinsky and Lane Kirkland beat back Soviet communism...Solidarity owes a lot to Lane, Mr. Kissinger, a close friend of Mr. Kirkland's told the New York Times... Read more
	Lane Kirkland was longtime AFL-CIO leader ; Lane Kirkland, who was president of the AFL-CIO from 1979 to 1995 and who resigned...was 77. The cause of death was lung cancer, said his wife, Irena Kirkland. Together, Kirkland and George Meany, his predecessor as president of the AFL-CIO and... Read more
	Lane Kirkland Signals He'll Fight to Keep Job; Labor Chief to Face Critics Seeking His Ouster ; ...political life, AFL-CIO President Lane Kirkland today set the stage for a showdown...into before the end of the year. Kirkland ducked the question today when...of whom long have been viewed as Kirkland allies, have concluded the federation... Read more
	Lane Kirkland dies; former AFL-CIO chief ; WASHINGTON Lane Kirkland, an intellectual union bureaucrat who...Saturday of lung cancer. He was 77. Mr. Kirkland had battled cancer since before his...shortly after he retired in 1995, Mr. Kirkland expressed his philosophy in these terms... Read more

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