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Abby P. Sun ’13, co-president of Radcliffe Union of Students, the campus feminist group that sponsored the sixth annual Female Orgasm Seminar, helped hand out 1500 free condoms and cupcakes decorated with candied breasts and vulvas to the nearly 700 audience members.
In the middle of a field in the heart of coal country in the summer of 1989, John J. Sweeney—who only six years later would become the president of the American Federation of Labor and Congress of Industrial Organizations—was missing in action.
Sweeney, then the president of the Service Employees International Union, was scheduled to give a speech to the crowds gathered to protest the lack of health insurance for retired mine workers. But, according to United Mine Workers’ then-President Richard L. Trumka, Sweeney was nowhere to be found...
After years of fighting for workers’ rights, Sweeney ended his four-term tenure as president of the AFL-CIO in September and is now a resident fellow at the Harvard Institute of Politics.
His first union job was with the International Ladies Garment Workers Union, where he worked in the research department. Three years later he moved to the Building Services Employees Union (now the Service Employees International Union), where he quickly rose through the ranks, ultimately becoming the union’s...