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From 1995 to 2009, John Sweeney was the President of the AFL-CIO, the largest federation of unions in the United States, representing over 11.5 million members in 57 federated unions. Beginning in 1980, he served as President of the Service Employees International Union, where he helped expand membership from 625,000 to approximately 1.1 million during his fifteen-year presidency. In 2000, Sweeney was elected President of the Trade Union Advisory Committee (TUAC), an international organization with consultative status at the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD).
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Berger, R., Grusky, D., Raffel, T., Samuels, G., Wimer, C. (2010). John Sweeney. In: The Inequality Puzzle. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-15804-9_11
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