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Sweeney retired as President of the AFL–CIO on September 16, 2009, [2] and became President Emeritus. He won the "Roving Ambassador for Peace" award from the World Peace Prize Awarding Council in 2016, because of his long-standing devotion to social justice and fair employment opportunities for American workers.
John J. Sweeney became president emeritus of the AFL-CIO at the federation’s constitutional convention in September 2009, stepping down after five terms as president. He was first elected president in 1995 on a platform of revitalizing the federation, which currently has 55 affiliated unions and 12.5 million members, including 3.2 Million ...
John J. Sweeney served five terms as president of the AFL-CIO from 1995-2009. He was a great leader and he devoted his life to the labor movement and advocating for the rights of working people.
Feb 2, 2021 · John Sweeney, who led an era of transformative change in America’s labor movement, passed away Feb. 1, 2021, at the age of 86. Sweeney was one of four children born to Irish immigrants in a working-class Bronx neighborhood shortly after the Great Depression.
John Sweeney, American labor leader who served as president of the AFL-CIO from 1995 to 2009. He sought to increase labor’s visibility and political clout, though under his leadership several unions left the federation.
Feb 2, 2021 · WASHINGTON (AP) — John Sweeney, who spent 14 years steering the AFL-CIO through a time of declining union membership and rising internal dissent, has died. He was 86. He died on Monday at his home in Bethesda, Maryland, AFL-CIO communications deputy director Carolyn Bobb said.
Feb 2, 2021 · The International Brotherhood of Boilermakers mourns the loss of AFL-CIO President Emeritus John Sweeney, who died February 1, 2021 at the age of 86. Sweeney served five terms as AFL-CIO President, beginning in 1995, stepping down in 2009 to remain as President Emeritus.
