So you are rolling through the Newsweek story on tensions in American labor and how they may hurt the Democratic Party and then you hit this ghost -- which is left unexplained by Howard Fineman, of all people. Boooo! There is, you see, a showdown looming between "Change to Win" coalition leader Andy Stern and AFL president John Sweeney. It's complicated, so check out the story. But here is the part that spooked me:

Some say [Stern] has another agenda, which is to take over the AFL-CIO from his former SEIU colleague Sweeney, who is half a generation older and cut from a different cloth: a Dorothy Day social activist from the working-class Bronx, N.Y., versus Stern, whose grandparents were members of an exclusive German-Jewish country club and who is a graduate of the University of Pennsylvania.

OK, so it's a class reference. But you can't help but note the Catholic Worker tag on one side and the "German-Jewish" label on the other. Say what precisely is being said here?