AFL-CIO Caroline Kennedy Remembers

Caroline Kennedy addressed the AFL-CIO convention today. Speaking tenderly of the friendship between her uncle, Senator Ted Kennedy, and AFL-CIO President Sweeney, she told those gathered at the convention that Senator Kennedy and all of labor shared a vision. "We have an opportunity to change American lives for the better." Senator Kennedy spent his career working for healthcare reform. He helped create the Employee Free Choice Act and introduced it. He believed that any worker should have the ability join a union if they want, free of harrassment by the employer. She spoke of the plan for the Kennedy Institute for the United States Senate. It will be union built and unions will help with the fundraising efforts in honor of the commitment Senator Kennedy made to working people.