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:: Saturday, September 13, 2003 ::
Sweeney, union workers arrested at Yale NEW HAVEN, Conn. -- AFL-CIO President John Sweeney was arrested with 151 other demonstrators Saturday after leading a march through city streets in support of two striking Yale University unions.
'Anything for the workers!' Sweeney yelled as he boarded a bus with his hands bound with plastic ties.
Yahoo! News - Top Stories Photos - AP Sweeney busted
Labor Leaders Arrested at Rally for Yale University Strikers By STEVEN GREENHOUSE
"Today is a statement by thousands of workers who don't work for Yale, but want to make a statement to the nation," said Bruce S. Raynor, the president of Unite, the nation's largest apparel workers' union. "Yale, which is a first-rate educational institution, has a reputation for arrogance and for not paying its workers enough to live on or retire on."
Mr. Raynor was arrested in a sit-in at Elm and York Streets at 3 p.m., along with Mr. Sweeney; Douglas J. McCarron, president of the United Brotherhood of Carpenters and Joiners of America; and Andrew L. Stern, president of the Service Employees International Union. Also arrested was John W. Wilhelm, president of the Hotel Employees and Restaurant Employees International Union, the parent union of the locals representing the Yale clerical, dining hall and maintenance workers who are on strike.------------------------------------------- posted 8:10 PM :: reference link ::
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