AFL-CIO President Emeritus John J. Sweeney, elected in 1995 with AFL-CIO Secretary-Treasurer Richard Trumka, and AFL-CIO Executive Vice President Arlene Holt Baker, elected in September 2007, lead the federation of America’s unions representing 11.5 million workers, including 3 million members in Working America, its community affiliate.

Read what AFL-CIO President Emeritus John Sweeney has to say.

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• Get Ready to Vote
• Look Over There
• Fundamentally Wrong
• Fix the Real Economy—Now
• Change
• 60 in the Senate
• Sept. 4: Come for a Walk
• Political Haze Lifts When Workers Speak
• Enough Obama Rumors
• Pain in the Gas
• Why The AFL-CIO Endorses Barack Obama
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• Meet John McCain
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• Don't Let Up
• Pass the Burke Test
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