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Trumka, now Sweeney’s successor at the AFL-CIO, eventually discovered the lost labor leader amidst a group of displaced mine workers and had to “drag” Sweeney away from the workers and up to the stage to give his speech...
...LABOR LEADER...
Years before Sweeney held his first job, he already knew the power of labor unions...
Growing up among a family of Irish immigrants in the Bronx, Sweeney saw firsthand the power of organized labor. His father, a unionized New York City bus driver, received salary and vacation benefits unavailable to his mother, a domestic worker...
Sweeney’s experiences growing up, including working unionized jobs in college—such as a grocer and a gravedigger—inspired his decision to pursue a career in the labor movement...