My focus needs to be 100 percent on the labor council.

These local labor councils acquired a great deal of influence in some cases.

The organization is the nation's largest municipal labor council, representing more than one million workers.

He said the labor council would also back other organizing efforts aimed at immigrant workers.

Wisdom was elected to a third term in 1994, again with support from the labour council.

Officials at the labor council said it was the first time they had backed a Republican for Mayor.

And behind all, a handful of men, known as the Labor Council, directed the fight.

About 400 groups sent participants, and the Labor Council claimed that 400,000 marched.

The labor council was formed last spring to find investors to take over Pan Am and bring in new capital.

Mr. Hughes declared that no future head of the labor council should simultaneously hold a political office.