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The AFL-CIO Continues to Step Forward with “New Labor”

New Orleans John Hiatt, now the AFL-CIO chief of staff under Richard Trumka, and previously general counsel under John Sweeney, was [...]

Thanking John Sweeney

Washington There are few grace notes in the current divisions within the forces of institutional labor, but I happened to experience a small one at Georgetown University in a special ceremony held to honor John Sweeney, retiring President of the AFL-CIO, with an honorary degree.  I had been invited by Joe McCartin, an organizer [...]