The interview describes the historical juncture where wc organizations were repoliticized. Sweeney’s insurgent election to head AFL-CIO in 1995 signalled renewed commitment to reasserting power and expanding membership. What went wrong wasn’t for a lack of organization or effort?
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Labor was in a better position. They had more people and more of the economy was unionized. NAFTA was just about to go into effect and workers were pissed. Their 30 year losing streak nonetheless lasted another 25.
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I take the final q&a to be generic in form and I take the content to express an angelic “optimism of the intellect” in the face of the defeat of the “optimism of the will”.
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