Joseph Lane Kirkland (March 12 1922 - August 14 1999) was a US labor union leader who served as President of the AFL-CIO for over sixteen years. Wikipedia
President of the AFL-CIO from 1979 to 1995, Lane Kirkland inherited a labor movement under heavy assault. Moving quickly to stem labor's decline, Kirkland initiated significant institutional innovations and secured the re-affiliation of almost all the la www.aflcio.org/aboutaflcio/history/history/kirkland.cfm
They won't be toppling larger-than-life statues of Lane Kirkland, but in many other respects the AFL-CIO chief's slow-motion fall from power parallels the demise of his hated enemies in the former Soviet Bloc. www.lalabor.org/Kirkland.html
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