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:: Friday, March 07, 2003 ::
BW Online | March 7, 2003 | Palace Coup at the AFL-CIO In a rebuke to President John Sweeney, activists pushed through a plan aimed at streamlining the federation and building membership
In 1995, union leaders anxious about labor's decline kicked out AFL-CIO President Lane Kirkland and elected John J. Sweeney with a mandate to get the labor movement moving again. Now, in a sharp rebuke to Sweeney, a group of five union chiefs concerned that he hasn't made enough progress have pulled off something of a palace coup. On Feb. 27, after most of the press had left labor's annual winter gathering in Hollywood, Fla., the group quietly pushed through the creation of a new governing body to run the federation. The goal: to reinvigorate the AFL-CIO and refocus its agenda on recruitment and politics -- and ditch almost everything else.------------------------------------------- posted 8:26 AM :: reference link ::
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