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STATE & RATION
Monday • September 5, 1994
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Labor Day not just fun and games for unions
WASHINGTON (AP) — Most Americans
consider Labor Day a last chance for summer
frolicking, a day for picnics and the beach.
But for the nation’s trade unionists, it’s
at least as much a day for assessment, re
flection and regrouping.
On Labor Day 1994, unions may have
some things to celebrate, but it has been, at
best, a difficult and trying year.
It’s been “a year like all years,” said
Lane Kirkland, president of the AFL-CIO.
“One of struggle, progress in some respects,
setbacks in others.”
The good news for unions is that the de
cline in union membership has reversed. In
1993, union membership rolls swelled by
200,000, the first increase in 14 years.
Unions are raising record amounts of mon
ey to donate to political candidates.
At the same time, they have suffered
some embarrassing defeats in Washington.
The unions began 1994 still smarting
from a spectacular loss last fall on the
North American Free Trade Agreement at
the hands of a president they helped propel
into office. They helped draft legislation to
strengthen job safety laws, but never got it
to the floor of either house of Congress.
They did get to the Senate floor a House-
passed bill that would have outlawed the
replacement of striking workers. But it was
killed in a Republican-led filibuster.
They launched a major lobbying cam
paign in favor of President Clinton’s health
care plan, but Congress recessed last
month without acting on any of several pro
posals and may not pass any health reform
this year.
“It’s been a mixed bag,” acknowledged
Gerald McEntee, president of the American
Federation of State, County and Municipal
Employees.
With Clinton in the White House and De
mocrats controlling Congress, labor leaders
had hoped to reverse the series of defeats they
suffered under Presidents Reagan and Bush.
They have fared better, but the highly visible
losses have left some questioning whether
unions are losing their clout.
“1 think the labor movement is weaker in
some respects because 15 or 20 years ago it
was, for some people, the focal point in
their life,” McEntee said.
“But now you’ve got issues that cover a
wide spectrum and groups that didn’t have
that much voice are now involved in poli
tics,” he said. “Now the union is only one
institution taken into consideration when a
member of that union makes a political de
cision.”
New rape legislation goes into effect
CORPUS CHRISTI, Texas (AP) —
Some women raped by their husbands
have been able to take their cases to court
since 1987, but conviction required more
evidence than it would if a non-spouse
were the assailant.
A state law that went into effect Sept. 1
treats all sexual assault victims equally.
Yet, many agree it will be years before the
new law will make an impact because
much of the public still believes that a
husband cannot rape his wife.
"It will take 10 years for the change in
the law to become in any way well-known,”
said Debby Tucker, executive director of
the Texas Council on Family Violence. "It
takes a very, very long time for attitudes to
catch up with these things.
“It will take a terribly brave woman
and a feminist prosecutor willing to artic
ulate that a marriage license is not a hit
ting and raping license.”
While prosecution for spousal rape has
been legal in certain circumstances since
1987, when the Legislature decided that
spouses could be taken to court, few cases
have made it there, legal authorities and do
mestic violence workers said.
In Texas, sexual assault programs re
ported 2,131 marital rapes between Octo
ber 1991 to September 1992, according to
latest statistics from the Texas Depart
ment of Health. About 61,000 women a
year are raped by their husbands or ex-
husbands, the National Women’s Study
found.
State Rep. Debra Danburg, D-Houston,
pushed for revisions of Texas rape laws soon
after entering the Legislature in 1981. Her
first bill to change spousal rape laws was de
feated by three votes in 1985.
“I then did lobbying on my own by talking
to wives of legislators,” she said. “Then we
changed the law incrementally.”
Danburg reintroduced legislation in 1987
and succeeded in making spousal rape a
crime if bodily injury or the threat of bodily
injury could be shown. In the last session,
her work paid off with the elimination of all
marital rape exemptions.
Much of the battle has been changing
her colleagues’ opinion about sexual as
sault, she said.
“It’s not a crime of passion and sex,”
she said in Sunday’s editions of the Cor
pus Christi Caller-Times. “It’s a crime of
violence and power. So a lot of it was a
matter of consciousness-raising, changing
attitudes of the crime.”
Not all Texans are applauding the re
cent change.
Austin resident Hugh Nations, national
vice president for the National Coalition
of Free Men, said no input from men’s
groups was sought before the bodily in
jury provision was deleted.
Nations also said he is disturbed that rape
legislation only deals with the crime of rape.
"We don’t deal with those other crimes
that stem from rape accusations,” he said.
Nations cited studies that he said
found that between 29 percent and 50
percent of rape allegations are false and
later recanted by the accuser.
“Those issues we simply do not deal
with, and it is particularly relevant in re
gard to marital rape, which happens be
tween two people who are presumably al
ready intimate,” he said.
Tucker said the new law is an impor
tant statement about behavioral expecta
tions.
“I don’t dismiss (the change in the law)
as being unimportant, but I do recognize
that it’s going to take a building time for
it to matter.”
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