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AFL-CIO President to Speak at College of Law |
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Linda Packo |
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Mar 1, 2002 |
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John J. Sweeney will speak at noon on March 4, 2002 at the University of Toledo College of Law. The program will include remarks by University of Toledo President Dan Johnson and Ninth District Congresswoman Marcy Kaptur. College of Law Dean Phillip J. Closius said that Sweeney’s appearance will mark the beginning of a series of labor law lectures for the law school.
Closius noted that “Toledo has long been one of the most highly unionized areas in the nation and labor relations and labor law have long been central to our community. The visit of AFL-CIO President John Sweeney is the first in a series of lectures to be hosted by the College of Law in recognition of the city’s historic relationship with the union movement and labor law.”
Sweeney was elected to a third term as president at the federation’s constitutional convention in Dec. 2001. He was first elected president in 1995 on a platform of revitalizing the 13 million-member federation, which has 66 affiliated unions. The 1995 election was the first contested election in AFL-CIO history. At the time of his election, Sweeney was serving as president of the Service Employees International Union, which grew from 625,000 to 1.1 million members during the 15 years of his leadership.
In May 2000, Sweeney was also elected president of the Trade Union Advisory Committee (TUAC), an international organization with consultative status at the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD). TUAC’s affiliates represent some 70 million workers and include over 55 national trade union centers in the 29 countries in the OECD. TUAC coordinates worker and union input to the G8 economic summits.
In 1996, he authored America Needs A Raise, Fighting for Economic Security and Social Justice, published by Houghton-Mifflin. He co-authored Solutions for the New Work Force in 1989 and co-edited the UNA-USA Economic Policy Council’s Family and Work: Bridging the Gap in 1987.
Sweeney graduated from Iona College in New Rochelle, N.Y. with a degree in economics. Sweeney holds honorary degrees from Oberlin College, the University of Massachusetts at Amherst, the University of Baltimore and Catholic University Law School.
For more information, contact Linda Packo 419.530.2712 or Ann Elick 419.520.2628.
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