Word: sweeneys
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...privilege that makes trade agreements easier to negotiate and simpler to get through Congress ? who either like it or strike it, but can't make changes ? and Big Labor absolutely hates it. So when Clinton took the stage in Pittsburgh after a terse introduction by AFL-CIO President John Sweeney, he started with the sugar: Campaign finance reform. Youth smoking. The 21st century (with no bridges...
...Monday, AFL-CIO head John Sweeney begged congressmen to make the union stop spending money on them, calling for public funding of federal campaigns and limits on campaign contributions. Wednesday, President Clinton goes to Pittsburgh to address the union federation that spent an estimated $119 million on political activity in the 1996 elections...
...labor's step in making the UPS strike a springboard for organizing efforts, even as the Teamsters were staging Action Day for Good Jobs rallies across the nation. "We will use the energy of the UPS defeat to renew the fight for good jobs," vowed AFL-CIO president John Sweeney...
...Boomers aren't in shock. We're not even much surprised. After all, these are our kids. May they continue to defy their detractors' expectations! STEVEN J. SWEENEY Turramurra, Australia...
...some elements of a witch hunt, with old scores being settled by calls to the sexual-conduct hot line. That was his most compelling argument, I thought, although I couldn't help contemplating what exquisite use we would have made of that hot line in the days of Lieut. Sweeney...