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The Man Who Realigned Labor John Sweeney, 1934–2021 Charles Dharapak/AP Photo Labor leader John Sweeney, seen here in September 2009, died yesterday at the age of 86. By the time he became president of the AFL-CIO in 1995, John Sweeney looked a good deal like the Park Avenue doormen—Irish and portly—who’d joined New York’s Building Service union when Sweeney was growing up in a very working-class neighborhood in the Bronx. In his twenties, Sweeney went to work for those doormen and the janitors who maintained buildings across Manhattan, negotiating contracts for their...

Press release content from Business Wire. The AP news staff was not involved in its creation. Prominent Attorneys Andy Stern and Elizabeth Crawford Launch New Law Firm Stern & Crawford, P.C. January 26, 2021 GMT Prominent Attorneys Andy Stern (right) and Elizabeth Crawford (left) Launch New Law Firm Stern & Crawford, P.C. (Photo: Business Wire) Prominent Attorneys Andy Stern (right) and Elizabeth Crawford (left) Launch New Law Firm Stern & Crawford, P.C. (Photo: Business Wire) PHILADELPHIA--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Jan 26, 2021-- Trial lawyers Andy Stern and Elizabeth Crawford today announced the lau...

With vaccinations underway and the Biden administration about to assume power, attention will soon return to an assessment of the true damage that Covid-19 has wreaked on the American economy. At this moment, it’s important to take stock of the various rescue measures that have been extended by the federal government and consider how they should be amended in the future. Above and beyond the $900 billion stimulus recently signed by President Trump, over the next two to four years it is likely that between $5 to $10 trillion dollars of taxpayer money, in the form of taxpayer-backed loans and...

Middle class job until they unionized and made it a good middle class job. lots of jobs might get created and the question about how much power workers have over their wages ends up being the determing one. >> you hit the nail on the head. where unions have been the massive force for better compensation and benefits but it's declined by 50% over the last number of years and as a result most americans are not benefitting from that collective bargaining power. if you put this foundation of $1,000 a month into workers hands it makes workers much, much harder to exploit and push around and this pl...

Not originally my plan. andy stern who used to be the largest labor union in it country proposed this in his 2015 big raising the floor. so this idea has been with us for a long time. it's just overdue we actually put it into law. >> final question i want to ask you about your trajectory here and your relationship to the democratic party. it seems to me from the folks there, their supporters of yours and people online you're reaching a lot of people who haven't traditionally haven't been involved in politics or part of the democratic party. what do you view as your role in the larger sort of e...