Robert Welsh, chief of staff for President John J. Sweeney, told employees at the AFL-CIO, which represents 58 unions and employs 421 persons, that as many as 80 to 100 would be let go ...

The AFL-CIO is cutting a quarter of its staff. The cutbacks are painful for ... The group's president, John Sweeney, wants to use some of the savings to build a full-time effort to elect more ...