5/21/2023 0 Comments John L. Lewis by Melvyn Dubofsky![]() ![]() Lewis, George Meany, Lane Kirkland, and even Stern’s predecessor the former president of the AFL-CIO, John Sweeney. Stern’s counterparts in the past either died in office-Samuel Gompers, Bill Green, Phil Murray, Walter Reuther-or left office at a relatively old age-John L. Yet, a decade and a half after promising to implement policies that would rebuild the labor movement, a goal that remains for the most part unaccomplished, Stern has unexpectedly resigned as president of the nation’s largest single union, the Service Employees’ International Union (SEIU). No labor leader has curried favor with the media so assiduously or obtained more face time on television. ![]() Dubofsky: The Legacy of Andy Stern Melvyn Dubofsky ▪ May 12, 2010įOR THE past fifteen years, Andy Stern has been the nation’s most ambitious trade unionist. ![]()
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