Douglas Fraser, former UAW president and university professor at Wayne State , commented about the AFL-CIO's struggle to prevent the Teamsters and four other dissident unions from seceding from the nation's largest federation of labor unions. The dissident unions' central complaint is that under AFL-CIO President John Sweeney the federation has spent too little money recruiting new members and too much on political campaigns. "We're playing the same record - we've been there, done that, and we didn't find the answer with that approach (seceding from the AFL-CIO)," Fraser said. "Leaving was not our finest hour."