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PITTSBURGH — John Sweeney, stepping down after 14 years at the helm of the AFL-CIO, urged union leaders Sunday to keep up the fight to reform health care and overhaul labor laws so workers can form unions more easily.
“We’re on the cusp of the greatest advance in labor-law reform in 70 years, but we’re taking heavy fire from the corporate captains of deceit,” Sweeney told about 1,000 union members at the federation’s convention.
Health care and labor laws lie at the forefront of the AFL- CIO’s political agenda as it welcomes new leadership for the first time since 1995. Sweeney’s deputy, Richard Trumka, is expected to be named AFL-CIO president on Wednesday.
