UAW Chief Quits Labor-Management Unit
United Auto Workers President Douglas A. Fraser, in a show of disappointment with the Carter administration and anger at the business community, yesterday pulled out of the administrationÛªs chosen vehicle for labor-management cooperation on inflation and other economic problems.</br></br>Fraser said the semiofficial Labor-Management Group, composed of 16 top business and labor executives, has become a useless ÛÏfacadeÛ to disguise a ÛÏone-sided class warÛ by business interests.</br></br>ÛÏconfrontation [rather] than cooperation,Û citing its so far successful attempt to scuttle the labor law revision bill as the ÛÏmost seriousÛ example of deteriorating labor-management relations.</br></br>As for the administration., Fraser said he had come to the conclusion that it is ÛÏineffectiveÛ ÛÓ unusually deprecatory language for the leader of a union that was among President CarterÛªs earliest campaign supporters and has remained one of his staunch defenders.</br></br>Fraser said Congress! which he described as an ÛÏabysmal failure,Û is more to blame than is Carter and added that any president would find it hard to lead in the post-Watergate, post-Vietnam political climate.