How can you have democracy without a union boss?

One of the lowlights of the annual convention of the American Political Science Association was the speech by John Sweeney, president of the AFL-CIO. I just returned this morning from the convention in Philadelphia and read this account of Sweeney’s speech yesterday in the Philadelphia Inquirer: “AFL-CIO chief says democracy weakening.”

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