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| | Will the AFL-CIO Split? A Debate on the Future of Organized Labor |
 | | We speak with Karen Ackerman, political director of the AFL-CIO, Chris Chafe, Chief of Staff at UNITE HERE as well as Kim Moody, co-founder of the rank and file newsletter "Labor Notes" and professor at Brooklyn College. |
 | | Karen Ackerman: Well, the convention will really take - really engage, I think, the entire labor movement in a rigorous debate, like we've been having leading up to the convention, a rigorous debate as to how to strengthen and move the labor movement forward and how best to represent workers in this country. |
 | | Karen, no one doubts, who knows the trajectory of the labor movement, that under John Sweeney there has been progress compared to previous administrations in the AFL, a lot of changes in political direction that are positive. |
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