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REX HARDESTY, 67; CHIEF SPOKESMAN FOR AFL-CIO IN 198S
Rex Hardesty, 67, chief spokesman for the AFL-CIO
during the 1980s and early 1990s, died Sunday of
Complications from leukemia at a hospital in Bethesda,
Md.
Hardesty worked for the AFL-CIO from 1981 to 1995,
during the time Lane Kirkland was president. The last
eight years there, Hardesty held the post of director
of information.
His time with AFL-CIO coincided with the overall
decline in the number of union members and the
dismissal by President Reagan of 12,500 striking air
traffic controllers in 1981.
A native of Tulsa, Okla., Hardesty lost his left eye
in a childhood accident. He spent six years studying
to be a Roman Catholic priest, and attended
Benedictine Heights College and the University of
Tulsa before turning to journalism in the sports
department of the Tulsa World.
He moved to Washington, D.C., in the mid-1960s to work
for the Washington Star on its sports copy desk.
He worked briefly for the Communications Workers of
America before joining the AFL-CIO in 1969 as editor
of its monthly journal. He moved up to director of
information in 1987.
After retiring from the AFL-CIO, he was a special
assistant to the president of the International Union
of Electronic, Electrical, Salaried, Machine and
Furniture Workers.
He later was an editioral consultant to the
International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers.
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