AFL-CIO Has Money Problems; Labor Federation Could Be Forced to Lay Off Staff, President Acknowledges

From: The Washington Post | Date: April 29, 2005| Author: Thomas B. Edsall | Copyright information

AFL-CIO President John J. Sweeney, who is facing challenges from some of the labor federation's largest member unions, yesterday acknowledged that the organization is financially squeezed and may have to lay off a quarter of its workforce.

Sweeney, who was first elected in 1995 as an insurgent who promised to increase the percentage of the workforce represented by unions, has presided over a decade of union decline. Signs of the AFL- CIO's precarious financial condition could make Swe...

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