In spite of what the media is saying, there is still a strong antiwar mood
among a significant part of the US population as the following reports clearly
show. They report on events shortly after the war broke out.
Less than twenty-four hours after U.S. missiles struck Baghdad, AFL-CIO President John J. Sweeney on March 20
announced his “unequivocal” support for the war and presumably for the war’s aims.
Sweeney has no business being a shop steward, let alone being the head of organized labor’s largest federation.
His urge for basically collaborative relations with Corporate America explains his support of the war on Iraq;
just as it explains his starkly feeble resistance to Corporate America’s downsizing of the U.S. labor movement.