page_title: John Sweeney (labor leader)
section_title: Platforms
hierarchical_section_title: John Sweeney (labor leader) / 2005 campaign for presidency of the AFL-CIO / Platforms
caption_attribution_description: English: John Sweeney on Oct. 4th 2008.
context_page_description: John Joseph Sweeney is an American labor leader who served as president of the AFL-CIO from 1995 to 2009.
context_section_description: The NUP platform included a number of proposals. First, the AFL-CIO should mandate the merger of smaller unions with larger ones, and the AFL-CIO must redraw and enforce jurisdictional lines along those of major industries, or "core jurisdictions." Second, a number of AFL-CIO departments (including health and safety, education, and civil and human rights) must be merged or eliminated. Third, political spending must be significantly reduced in favor of major new AFL-CIO spending on organizing.
  Sweeney told the press he would initiate an internal discussion of Stern's views after the November 2004 presidential election, with a goal of creating a proposal by July 2005. But Stern declared that this would be too late for consideration at the AFL-CIO's biennial convention.
caption: John Sweeney in October 2008
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