Remembering John Sweeney (1934-2021)

Broadcast on February 4, 2021
Hosted by Chris Garlock and Ed Smith

This week's show:
Stephen Lerner, Marilyn Sneiderman, Harold Meyerson and Joe McCartin remember John Sweeney, who led the AFL-CIO from 1995 to 2009. John Sweeney died on Monday at his home in Bethesda, Maryland; he was 86.
American labor and community organizer Stephen Lerner worked with Sweeney at SEIU to create the Justice for Janitors campaign in the mid-Eighties. Marilyn Sneiderman is Executive Director of the Center for Innovation in Worker Organization at Rutgers; under Sweeney, she directed the National AFL-CIO’s Department of Field Mobilization, where she helped launch the national "Union Cities" initiative. Harold Meyerson is editor at large of The American Prospect; his piece on Sweeney, The Man Who Realigned Labor, appeared on February 2. Joe McCartin is a labor historian at Georgetown University, where he also serves as the executive director of the Kalmanovitz Initiative for Labor and the Working Poor.

PLUS: Elise Bryant, president of the Coalition of Labor Union Women, on the February 9 free online screening of 9to5: The Story of A Movement.
Produced by Chris Garlock; engineered by Kahlia Chapman.

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