Thomas buffenbarger biography
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Origin
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Does Labor Need Another Wimpy?
When Carter let unions down on labor law reform and other legislative priorities in the late ’70s, Winpisinger wasn’t afraid to organize within the Democratic Party to challenge him from the left. “To me,” he told an IAM conference in 1978, “President Carter is through. He’s a weak, vacillating, and ineffective President.”
The AFL-CIO was headed, at the time, by George Meany, an octogenarian cold warrior. As Halley reports, “Wimpy was disgusted by what he viewed as Meany’s capitulation to Carter’s weakness on labor issues.” He became a leader of “the dump Jimmy Carter and dump George Meany forces.” In 1980, he backed an ill-fated presidential primary run against Carter by Ted Kennedy who was, perceived by many, as being more liberal and labor-friendly. Now, thirty-one years later, some Obama supporters are so disillusioned that a few have even called for a Kennedy or Gene McCarthy-style protest candidacy against Obama next year.
Before labor’s alienation with Carter reached that stage, Wimpy urged the AFL-CIO to build more active alliances with civil rights groups, feminists, religious leaders, environmentalists, and consumers. When Meany balked at this approach, the IAM worked with the Citizens Labor Energy Coal
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R. Thomas Buffenbarger
American labor leader
R. Thomas Buffenbarger | |
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Buffenbarger speaking at a rally in Erie, Pennsylvania, in 2008 | |
| Born | 1950 (age 74–75) |
| Occupation | President of the IAM |
| Spouse | Linda |
| Children | Amy and Andrew |
Robert Thomas "Tom" Buffenbarger is an American labor leader and former president of the International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers (IAM).[1][2]
Background
[edit]Buffenbarger is a member of the executive council of the AFL-CIO and a member of the Economic Policy Institute's board of directors, serves as chairman of the Labor Advisory Committee to the U.S. Trade Representative, and is a past member of the U.S. Treasury Department's Advisory Committee to the International Monetary Fund. Buffenbarger also once served on the National Advisory Board of the Apollo Alliance and was one of the original 130 founders of the Campaign for America's Future.[3]
Buffenbarger is a member of the National Executive Board of the Boy Scouts of America, the organization's governing body.[4] He is a recipient of the Silver Buffalo Award.[5]