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	SignOnSanDiego.com > News > Business -- AFL-CIO leader is re-elected
		CHICAGO – John Sweeney won re-election yesterday as president of the AFL-CIO, hailing a new sense of purpose for the beleaguered labor movement.
		Many of labor's allies downplayed the rift, a product of a disagreement over Sweeney's failed strategy for reversing a slide in union membership from 35 percent of the work force in 1955 when the federation was formed to 12.5 percent now if government workers are counted and 7.9 percent if they are not.
		Sweeney justifies the AFL-CIO's heavy expenditure on politics by arguing that the labor movement will never grow until it elects allies to the White House and Congress who will reverse laws and policies now in place that labor activists say are foiling their efforts to organize nonunion sectors of the economy.
	www.signonsandiego.com /news/business/20050728-9999-1b28labor.html (1025 words)

	John Sweeney (labor leader) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		John Sweeney (born May 5, 1934 in The Bronx, New York) is the president of the AFL-CIO.
		Prominent among the dissatisfied leaders was Andrew Stern, president of SEIU and a Sweeney protege.
		Sweeney is a member of the Democratic Socialists of America.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/John_Sweeney_(labor_leader) (4697 words)

	LaborNet: Online Communications for a Democratic Labor Movement
		With such unrest, many union leaders agree that the labor movement is at a crossroads: one path might lead to disastrous division and hasten labor's decline, while the other might lead to a revival.
		Sweeney's simple response to his critics is: "I believe I'm the right person to lead the changes we need." What has split organized labor into pro- and anti-Sweeney camps is a debate over the best direction for labor and who would be best to lead the movement and reverse its decline.
		Sweeney has faced opposition only once, in 1995, when he was first elected to a two-year term; since then he has won two four-year-terms.
	www.labornet.org /news/0505/sumdis.htm (1445 words)

	Labor's War at Home
		Although labor officials bowed to employers' demands in every major battle, bitterness in the rank and file over concessions has forced leaders of a number of unions to sharpen their rhetoric against the employers and at least partially mobilize the membership for action.
		The labor leaders are nor framers of decisions that determine the structure of this society.
		The trade union leaders, right wing included, play a dual role, because, along with the integration [into capitalism], they retain (as a group) a vital interest in the preservation of their organizations, working-class organizations, which are the source of their importance in society, their incomes and their prospects.
	www.thirdworldtraveler.com /Labor/Labors_War_Home.html (4827 words)

	U.S. labor leader laments unions' plans to split away - Americas - International Herald Tribune
		CHICAGO John Sweeney, president of the AFL-CIO, said Monday that plans by the Teamsters and a major service workers' affiliate to withdraw from the labor federation would be a "grievous insult" to working people and their unions.
		The schism is the biggest crisis to confront the labor federation since the Congress of Industrial Organizations, which was trying to organize hundreds of thousands of mass-production workers in auto, steel and other industries, split off 70 years ago from the American Federation of Labor, which largely represented craft workers.
		Leaders of the service employees' union, the food and commercial workers' union, the Teamsters and Unite Here, which represents apparel, hotel and restaurant employees, said Sunday that they were shunning the convention because, in their view, the federation, under Sweeney, had been ineffective in halting the long slide of organized labor.
	www.iht.com /articles/2005/07/25/news/labor.php (476 words)

	44 Union Heads Back Sweeney on Unity (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		AFL-CIO President John Sweeney's appeal for labor unity won him the endorsement of the presidents of 44 of the federation's 57 international union affiliates, giving him a majority of the convention votes he needs to be re-elected for another four-year term.
		Even Sweeney's supporters concede he is dull, monotonous, repetitious and humorless in the rare times he speaks to a radio or TV audience about labor's mission.
		John is neither well-known, nor well-liked by the rank-and-file, but that is of no consequence to him as long as he can have the support of the large unions with their huge blocs of convention votes.
	www.laboreducator.org /backsweeney.htm (756 words)

	Razzle Dazzle: The Horse in Labor's House
		Sweeney's continued compensation from Local 32B-32J was hardly a revelation; the payments from the local to him, which eventually exceeded $70,000 a year, were listed on a disclosure form filed with the Federal Government that I received a copy of while writing about Mr.
		Just as cops who are corrupt are more inclined to be brutal as well, labor leaders who operate as if they own their positions are prone to extend that sense of entitlement to enrich themselves.
		For one thing, any pangs of conscience a corrupt labor leader might have in terms of serving his or her members are likely to be trampled by the more-urgent demands of men who have never been infected by trade-union principles.
	www.thechief-leader.com /news/2006/0929/Razzle_Dazzle (2068 words)

	From Meany to Sweeney: Labor's Leftward Tilt
		John Sweeney described the recently passed welfare reform bill as "anti-poor, anti-immigrants, anti-women and anti-children," and said that it was a "sad day" when President Clinton signed it.
		Sweeney's admiration for the efforts of the French Communist-backed General Confederation of Labor and its stranglehold on many of France's key public-sector agencies is an ominous indication of the AFL-CIO's political agenda.
		Labor leaders are free to associate with such groups as the Democratic Socialists of America, the Natural Law Party, or Planned Parenthood; but as the Supreme Court declared in Beck, they have no business trying to compel millions of union members to support this extreme political agenda with mandatory union dues.
	www.heritage.org /Research/GovernmentReform/BG1094.cfm (5266 words)

	CNN.com - Labor leader cites 'battle' with White House - March 18, 2001
		Labor leaders have also been angered by Bush's intervention in the mechanics' dispute with Northwest Airlines, preventing a strike.
		Sweeney also opposes Bush's proposal, dubbed paycheck protection, to include a measure in campaign finance reform legislation that would mandate that union members be given a choice about whether their dues can be diverted to political candidates.
		Sweeney acknowledged that labor unions raised millions of dollars during the past election cycle and donated the bulk of that money to Democratic candidates.
	archives.cnn.com /2001/ALLPOLITICS/03/18/labor.bush/index.html (344 words)

	AGR Online/ Labor
		Labor leader Felix Jimenez said Wednesday 10 strikers had been injured, one of them seriously, in a clash with national guardsmen in the community of Palo Grande, in Zulia state.
		Labor unions favor the rule, but business groups have sued, arguing that linking contract awards to violations of laws unrelated to federal procurement is unfair.
		Opposition leader Begum Khaleda Zia, who heads the BNP and a four-party alliance, said the strike was an ultimatum after the request for the government to step down by March 30 went unheeded.
	www.agrnews.org /issues/116/labor.html (1722 words)

	USATODAY.com - AFL-CIO leader John Sweeney is re-elected (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		CHICAGO (AP) AFL-CIO President John Sweeney, the center of a storm in the labor movement, was re-elected to a fourth term Wednesday — just days after the defection of two major unions that sought his ouster.
		The dissident unions said Sweeney, 71, was elected on a platform of growth and change but has done too little to reverse the decades-long decline in union membership.
		Several labor leaders said the dissident groups had wanted Sweeney to announce that he was stepping down at the convention — or be re-elected with the intention of only serving a few months — and to endorse one of their preselected candidates to succeed him.
	www.usatoday.com /money/workplace/2005-07-27-afl-cio-sweeney_x.htm (295 words)

	Why Sweeney Should Retire III
		Sweeney owes his re-election to a group of international union presidents who have a majority of convention votes.
		Sweeney has little contact with the rank-and-file, except at those few photo-op rallies when he appears, wearing a baseball cap and a union-made windbreaker jacket, to make the standard speeches of labor’s support.
		While Sweeney and a few other directors didn’t trade their ULLICO shares for profit, they did approve each stock transaction and the rules that enabled co-directors to reap huge profits, even voting to extend the time limit to give them five more months to cash in additional shares.
	www.ilcaonline.org /ht/display/ArticleDetails/i/15261 (1133 words)

	Laborers' Arthur Coia Backs John Sweeney (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Arthur A. Coia, the Laborers union leader who publicly flirted Monday with a switch of allegiance in the battle for the presidency of the AFL-CIO, was back in challenger John J. Sweeney's camp again yesterday.
		It is "a safe assumption" that Coia will back frontrunner Sweeney today when the delegates elect a new president of the 13-million member federation of labor unions at their convention in New York, said Coia spokesman Bert L. Rohrer.
		Sweeney's camp never acknowledged that there was any softening in their support.
	www.laborers.org /coia_projo_10-25-95.html (321 words)

	Big labor backs drivers (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		The nation's top labor leader flew into town yesterday to give his blessing to an effort by independent truckers to win union recognition for their work at Puget Sound ports, a step that adds credibility to the movement and holds the promise of financial support.
		Sweeney's appearance and support reinforces the initiative with the backing of an alliance of national unions, according to Margaret Levi, the director of the Center of Labor Studies at the University of Washington.
		Sweeney's involvement is the latest development in the effort by local truckers to improve pay for the owner-operator drivers who haul containers between docks and nearby railyards.
	seattlepi.nwsource.com /business/afl20.shtml (721 words)

	Against War
		Note from the editors of Labor Standard: On one of the key questions addressed in this article, the question of the role of the United Nations, readers are also encouraged to revisit an earlier article by Joe Auciello.
		Many of the leaders and activists opposing that war were fired, fllisted, jailed, deported, and even lynched (as in the case of IWW leader Frank Little).
		During the Vietnam War there were a handful of union leaders, such as Cleveland Robinson, John T. Williams, Bill Lucy, and Tony Mazzocchi who stuck their necks out to collaborate with the broader antiwar movement early on.
	www.laborstandard.org /Iraq/unconditional.htm (1885 words)

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		Sweeney is a card-carrying member of Democratic Socialists of America (DSA), the principal American affiliate of the Socialist International.
		With Sweeney's reelection inevitable and the coalition's proposed reforms compromised, Hoffa on the first day of this convention announced that the Teamsters Union and its 1.4 million members were withdrawing from the AFL-CIO.
		Sweeney was expected to win reelection to a new term, but many viewed his triumph as a Pyrrhic victory likely to prompt more member union departures and to accelerate the AFL-CIO's already-steep decline.
	www.discoverthenetwork.org /individualProfile.asp?indid=2009 (2571 words)

	A Conspiracy of Silence to Suppress One of Labor’s Worst Scandals
		AFL-CIO President John Sweeney can’t deny that he received hundreds of thousands of dollars over a 13-year period after he left his post as president of Local 32B-32J, a janitors’ local union, in 1981 to become president of the parent Service Employees International Union, where he earned an annual six-figure salary at the same time.
		Sweeney refuses to explain how he found time from his paid duties as SEIU president to provide services to Local 32B-32J that was worth as much as $70,000 a year.
		If there are any labor leaders or union members who feel that Sweeney is entitled to the extra income, let them step forward and make the case publicly.
	www.laboreducator.org /conspiresil.htm (750 words)

	Changing with the times
		From Eugene V. Debs, a Socialist labor leader at the turn of the 20th century, to Jimmy Hoffa, the presumed dead former Teamsters' president, unions and their leaders have a rich history in the Wabash Valley.
		Flawed labor laws, recurring violations by employers and ineffective enforcement by authorities suggest that the United States failed its duty to protect the freedom of association for workers under international human rights standards, according to the report.
		The contemporary labor movement has a stronger lobby and pushes its agenda at more levels and in the earlier stages on campaigns in an effort to mobilize larger numbers of people, he said.
	specials.tribstar.com /LaborLeaders2000/risley1.html (950 words)

	Beacon Journal \| 10/08/2006 \| Labor leader meets strikers on picket duty (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Sweeney told the pickets Saturday that he was aware of their history with the company.
		Sweeney was in Cleveland earlier in the day, helping with grass-roots efforts for Democratic U.S. Senate candidate Sherrod Brown and Democrat Ted Strickland, who is running for governor.
		Sweeney was last in Akron two years ago, when he appeared with presidential candidate John Kerry at a rally.
	www.ohio.com /mld/ohio/living/community/15709119.htm (533 words)

	John Sweeney, AFL-CIO President, Defends Richard Trumka For Illegal Scheme To Help Teamsters Ron Carey
		Sweeney confirmed that AFL-CIO Secretary-Treasurer Richard Trumka, who invoked his Fifth Amendment right and refused to appear, also has declined to explain a questionable transaction to federation attorneys.
		Sweeney testified AFL-CIO policy would only allow removal of an elected officer for invoking the Fifth Amendment only if it was determined the officer did so to cover up wrongdoing.
		The labor federation brought three dozen workers to sit behind Sweeney during his testimony, and the labor leader voiced suspicion that the House inquiry was merely a partisan attack against labor.
	www.laborers.org /AP_Team_4-30-98.html (570 words)

	Online NewsHour: Labor and Politics -- October 12, 1999
		Labor's fundamental problem is not trade because countries that are much more unionized in Europe are much more open to the global economy or compete much more in the global economy.
		Labor's biggest problem is it doesn't have labor law reform so it can go out and organize.
		You have a new era of labor leadership from the old guard...Doris was talking about George Meeney, these people who are in their 80's and 70's - have been around forever.
	www.pbs.org /newshour/bb/election/july-dec99/historians_10-12.html (1749 words)

	John Sweeney - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		John Sweeney (labor leader) - president of the AFL-CIO.
		John Thomas Sweeney - who was convicted of manslaughter for the murder of Dominique Dunne
		John Sweeney (TUAC) - president of the Trade Union Advisory Committee to the OECD
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/John_Sweeney (142 words)

	Labor Leader Wants Safety Inspectors at Ports
		On Friday, AFL-CIO President John Sweeney asked U.S. Secretary of Labor Elaine Chao and the governors of California, Washington, and Oregon to put health and safety inspectors on the West Coast docks to help ensure the safety of longshore workers as they face an unprecedented level of cargo.
		In his letter to Chao, Sweeney also noted the extraordinary backlog on the docks provides "fertile ground for controversies over whether deviations from what the PMA contends is a 'normal and reasonable rate of speed' arise from legitimate concerns over safety.
		Sweeney noted that Oregon and Washington had already dispatched some consultants or inspectors to monitor safety and health conditions.
	safety.blr.com /display.cfm/id/88540 (469 words)

	Jobless on Labor Day - Aug. 30, 2002
		And some economists have noted that this recovery is starting to look an awful lot like the recovery from the 1990-91 recession, when job growth was dead in the water for more than a year, probably costing then-President George Bush his bid for re-election in 1992.
		Labor unions, which hosted the first Labor Day celebration in New York City in 1882, could once be relied upon to look out for the interests of many American workers -- up to 35 percent during organized labor's heyday in the 1950s.
		The recent rash of corporate scandals, in which corporate executives have made millions before skipping out, leaving employees holding the bag, it would seem that unions would be as alluring to workers as ever.
	money.cnn.com /2002/08/30/news/labor/index.htm (966 words)

	United Way of America and Organized Labor
		Since 1946, the American Federation of Labor and the Congress of Industrial Organizations (AFL-CIO) and United Way of America have enjoyed a cooperative relationship through which they and state and local United Ways have provided services to members of organized labor, their families and their communities.
		Currently, there are five AFL-CIO representatives serving on United Way of America's Board of Governors, two of them on the executive committee, and a labor leader is currently serving as the chair of the board of directors of United Way International.
		Through the Labor Letters of Endorsement Program of the Department of Labor Participation, the AFL-CIO president and Field Mobilization Department ask presidents of AFL-CIO affiliated unions, state federations and central labor councils to send letters endorsing United Way campaigns to their memberships.
	national.unitedway.org /labor (441 words)

	CNN.com - Bush, Hoffa and labor - Aug. 22, 2003
		AFL-CIO President John Sweeney's regime is compared within labor to the ineffectiveness of predecessor George Meany's closing years.
		When Sweeney replaced Lane Kirkland in 1995, his intent was to make organized labor an engine for the Democrats.
		After eight years of failure, the labor movement faces the possibility of Hoffa's Teamsters benevolently neutral toward or even in support of the Republican president.
	www.cnn.com /2003/ALLPOLITICS/08/22/column.novak.opinion.labor (746 words)

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