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The two Times each report that John Sweeney, AFL-CIO president, announced yesterday that the unions affiliated with his organization would lend the Teamsters $10 million a week--to be used for strikers' benefits--for "many, many weeks."
Time explains why the anti-sweatshop movement is growing on college campuses: The AFL-CIO has jump-started the protests by lavishing student activists with internships and trips to countries with poor working conditions.
"Until the WTO addresses these important issues, there will be no support for a major new round of trade negotiations," declared AFL-CIO President John Sweeney several days before the Seattle meeting.
And where West European labor movements are well embedded within a broader left, the American left is populated by romantic individualists whose pulses are not set racing by the letters "AFL-CIO."
To break through that barrier, the AFL-CIO will need to convince a majority of Americans--or at least a muscular plurality--that solidarity is good for what ails us.