Labor's Resurgence

Leonard Fein Forward 10-27-1995 Labor's Resurgence. It is probably no coincidence that the resurgent activism in the American labor movement -- most importantly what appears to be the election of John Sweeney as president of the AFL-CIO -- coincides with the retreat of the Congress from the social programs of the liberal era.

That is as it should be. The GOP juggernaut will awaken private, non-governmental institutions across a broad swath of our society, very much including, incidentally, the Jewish community, where the Federation system is undergoing, as our Ira Stoll reports on the ...

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