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JOHN SWEENEY This working man's no stiff. AFL-CIO honcho pulls fast one to get Congress to pull fast-track bill...
According to a fact sheet from the AFL-CIO and the United Farm Workers, grape workers are often exposed to carcinogenic pesticides, forced to work without access to toilets or drinking water and paid less than minimum wage...
...TIME's Edward Barnes expects the continuing federal grand jury investigation to have a major impact on the Democratic Party. "This basically gives the election to Hoffa," he says. "And with Carey's fall, his coalition with (AFL-CIO head) John Sweeney, which was so lucrative for pro-labor Democrats (and so successful in dragging down fast-track), is basically finished. As for Hoffa, so far he's playing it very close to the vest." Somewhere, Dick Gephardt is sweating...
...G.O.P. has long charged that the Democrats and the AFL-CIO must have coordinated their efforts in 1996 as the union shaped its $35 million campaign attacking individual Republican candidates. But the G.O.P. has never had much proof. Instead, new material in the hands of Senator Fred Thompson's investigating committee raises questions about whether groups friendly to his party knew where to target their ads and what message...
...continuation of MFN status now would send a message of accommodation to ongoing violations of international trading norms and human rights," said John J. Sweeney, president of the AFL-CIO, in a statement...