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AFL-CIO going from labor to liberal activism

By Sean Higgins
Published September 10, 2013 4:00am ET
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AFL-CIO going from labor to liberal activism
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Big Labor’s AFL-CIO is a rock in changing times, Sen. Elizabeth Warren told the union federation during its 2013 convention.

“When political injustice threatened to break our democracy, members of the labor movement were there, working for jobs and freedom, marching right alongside Dr. Rev. Martin Luther King,” the Massachusetts Democratic freshman senator said.

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