Politics
U.S. Labor Leaders Confront Sexual Harassment in Top Ranks
- Senior staff at AFL-CIO and SEIU have resigned or been fired
- ‘No organization, including our own, is immune,’ AFL-CIO says
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Richard Trumka, the head of America’s biggest labor organization, opened its October national convention in an unusual way: the AFL-CIO president read a passage from the code-of-conduct and gave out the contact information of two people designated to field any complaints about sexual harassment or other discriminatory or inappropriate behavior.
“It’s a zero-tolerance policy,” Trumka told reporters that day. “We think we’re on the cutting edge of that. And if we aren’t, we want to be there.”