Labor's civil war: the Sweeney revolution is definitely over. But is the Sweeney era? Inside the tumultuous battle over labor's future.
American Prospect, The, June, 2005 by Meyerson, Harold
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ON TUESDAY, MAY 3, 167 OF THE AFL-CIO'S 426 employees reported to work to find that their positions had been eliminated. Whole divisions were being scrapped, publications abolished, programs terminated. Some departments w-ere being consolidated, and 61 new positions being created within them, but the house that Federation President John Sweeney had built was, by Sweeney's own decree, being partially torn down.
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The Field Mobilization Department--a nebulous division that employed 67 field reps for disparate assignments across the nation--was being merged into the political ...
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