UNION LEADER ANDY STERN ON THE FUTURE OF DIG LADOR

摘要

As BusinessWeek went to press on Sept. 16, the AFL-CIO had elected Rich Trumka as the new leader of the federation, succeeding longtime President John Sweeney. Trumka would be heading a much larger organization if Andy Stern, head of the Service Employees International Union, had not taken his union (now 2.1 million strong) out of the AFL-CIO four years ago. Stern, once a student at the Wharton School, was an early critic of banking industry practices and the private equity juggernaut. He is passionate about health reform (about 1 million members of the SEIU are health-care workers), and he is a staunch supporter of President Barack Obama.