Labor Quote: John Sweeney

On this date in 1999, Sweeney, President of the AFL-CIO, welcomed the collapse of World Trade Organization talks in Seattle, declaring, "No deal is better than a bad deal." 
photo: AFL-CIO Vice-President Linda Chavez Thompson, AFL-CIO President John Sweeney, Teamsters President James Hoffa and United Auto Workers President Steve Yokich at Seattle WTO protest: photo by David Bacon

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