AFL-CIO President Elected for 4th Term

John J. Sweeney, the president of the AFL-CIO, was re-elected yesterday for a 4th term. This comes right after a big fiasco in which two major unions left the federation. The Teamsters Union and the Service Employees International Union left the labor federation to form their own group, called the Change to Win Coalition. The Teamsters Union and the Service Employees International Union have refused to pay back millions of dollars in back dues to the AFL-CIO. These two unions made up 3 million out of the 13 million members of the labor federation. Sweeney actually used to head the Service Employees International Union when he was first elected president of the AFL-CIO about 10 years ago in 1995. AP latest ebusiness news