AFL-CIO PRESIDENT SWEENEY SPEAKS ABOUT JOBS
AFL-CIO President John Sweeney speaks at the National Press Club in Washington on January 18, 2006. Sweeney discussed what he sees as the erosion of good American jobs. (UPI Photo/Roger L. Wollenberg)
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