by FRED HIRSCH
Through these decades I have found that the AFL-CIO foreign policy leadership has been operating in our name, but behind our backs, doing damage to workers in the so-called developing countries. Further, about 90 percent of their operations abroad have been funded by the U.S. government, with no mandate from or reporting to AFL-CIO union affiliates and members. Thus, the activities of AFL-CIO foreign policy leaders have been sabotaging the very principles of international labor solidarity that they and we have proclaimed. I see this as undermining the democracy, transparency, and accountability so necessary to strengthen our unions here at home. We should no longer accept such unprincipled lack of accountability.
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