The AFL-CIO and the American Labor Movement

The deindustrialization of a lot of American that's become very manifest. And we have to do something about that. So I think that that's one reason this distinction has ended. You write in state of the union and elsewhere about the major shift that took place in the American labor movement in 1995. John Sweeney from SEIU is elected president of the AFL-CIO, which produced space in public discourse for quote unquote labor intellectuals like you.