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...September 2001, Wal-Mart also has been the defendant in 28 complaints brought by the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) over alleged antiunion activities, including firing employees suspected of being friendly to organized labor. "The company is dragging wages and benefit levels back to 19th century standards," says John Sweeney, president of the AFL-CIO, which is sponsoring an organizing effort at the company's stores...
...votes in Missouri and New Hampshire. It's also true that those votes swung Republican, and in the minds of voters, the problem wasn't that the Democratic message was obscured but that the Democrats obscured it. After examining a postelection poll of his members, AFL-CIO president John Sweeney said they felt "neither party has a plan to strengthen the economy." But he added that "this is a particularly strong indictment of the Democrats. They needed to be crystal clear about what they stand for on issues of importance to workers--jobs, the economy, health care...
...trying to get it back because it saves money in the long run,” said Thady J. Sweeney, one of the group’s members...
...smallest group of demonstrators carried mock signs favoring “Governor Steve Sweeney.” Sweeney is a morning host on Boston’s WZLX radio station...
Asked about this humorous political statement, Jared Frontiero, a Sweeney campaigner, grinned...