Linda Chavez-Thompson, who has been the A.F.L.-C.I.O.’s executive vice president for 11 years, will step down from that post on Friday. John J. Sweeney, the labor federation’s president, told union leaders. As the No. 3 official at the nation’s largest labor federation, Ms. Chavez-Thompson, 63, took the lead in contacts with immigrant workers and in developing the federation’s immigration policy. Mr. Sweeney nominated Arlene Holt-Baker, an African-American who is one of his top assistants and who headed the labor movement’s response to Hurricane Katrina, to be the federation’s next executive vice president.þþ
Source: NY Times
