John Sweeney, President of the AFL-CIO, received an honorary degree and made the commencement address at Oberlin College, May 1999. The text of his address can be read at the AFL-CIO web site. The degree was presented by Oberlin College President, Nancy Dye.
Learning and Labor! Students from my seminar, "The Future of Organized Labor," demonstrating what they learned in class, May 1999.

LABOR ISSUES AND LINKS

CHRIS HOWELL

"It has always seemed strange to me," said Doc. "The things we admire most in men, kindness and generosity, openness, honesty, understanding, and feeling, are the concomitants of failure in our system. And those traits we detest, sharpness, greed, acquisitiveness, meanness, egotism, and self-interest, are the traits of success. And while men admire the quality of the first they love the produce of the second."
John Steinbeck Cannery Row

 

"It is not necessary that people be wicked but only that they be spineless."
James Baldwin

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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