John Judis’s article on the AFL-CIO’s need to replace Sweeney makes a lot of excellent points, none of which relate to replacing Sweeney. Read the piece for an all-too-rare counterpoint concerning SEIU’s Andy Stern and his restructuring proposals, but don’t go looking for the argument it claims to contain — why the AFL-CIO needs to dump Sweeney.
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