Union Leaders Rap Guidelines, Oil Decontrol
The AFL-CIO renewed itsv< assault on Carter administration energy and economic policies yesterday, Ûªlabeling its anti-inflation program an ÛÏabsolute flopÛ and declaring that decontrol of domestic oil prices ÛÏmust fee-stopped.Û</br></br>The AFL-CIO renewed itsv< assault on Carter administration energy and economic policies yesterday, Ûªlabeling its anti-inflation program an ÛÏabsolute flopÛ and declaring that decontrol of domestic oil prices ÛÏmust fee-stopped.Û 'Spring meeting here, indicated no * abatement of the labor federationÛªs ,* hostility to major administration do-mestic policies.</br></br>; ÛÏContinuation of 7 percent wage ^guideline in the face of the reality of double-digit inflation is unfair and ir-ÐÊ rational, and the methods used by the government to enforce it are illegal,Û asserted the .union leaders, who are parties seeking to bar the government from enforcing the guidelines.</br></br>As for the administrationÛªs plan to phase out controls on domestic oil prices by 1981, the council said decontrol will ÛÏaccentuate the already steep ^rise in oil prices and their products, -\yith similar increases in other energy prices.Û The council called it ÛÏrationing-by-price, the most unfair system of rationing that could be devised.Û</br></br>The Executive Council pledged ^Û÷maximum supportÛ to congressional .efforts to block the decontrol plan, ^hich are believed likely to founder in the Senate. But it took no stand on -the administrationÛªs proposed ÛÏwindfall profits taxÛ on some of the extra money that oil companies would -get from the price increase.