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Abby P. Sun ’13, co-president of Radcliffe Union of Students, the campus feminist group that sponsored the sixth annual Female Orgasm Seminar, helped hand out 1500 free condoms and cupcakes decorated with candied breasts and vulvas to the nearly 700 audience members...
Sweeney, then the president of the Service Employees International Union, was scheduled to give a speech to the crowds gathered to protest the lack of health insurance for retired mine workers. But, according to United Mine Workers’ then-President Richard L. Trumka, Sweeney was nowhere to be found...
After demonstrations that led to Sweeney’s and Trumka’s arrests, the two union presidents and their fellow protesters could call this strike a success—the mine retirees eventually obtained health care coverage...
...talk about where I would like to be, I would say that I would like to be back in the local union in New York City, representing workers and really interacting,” Sweeney says...
...first union job was with the International Ladies Garment Workers Union, where he worked in the research department. Three years later he moved to the Building Services Employees Union (now the Service Employees International Union), where he quickly rose through the ranks, ultimately becoming the union’s president...