Teamsters, SEIU Decide to Bolt AFL-CIO

[Broca]

Should be a lot of press releases coming up this week.


http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/ap/20050725/ap_on_bi_ge/labor_rift

Teamsters, SEIU Decide to Bolt AFL-CIO By RON FOURNIER, AP Political Writer
21 minutes ago

CHICAGO - Jolting organized labor, the Teamsters and a massive service employees' union decided Sunday to bolt the AFL-CIO, paving way for two other labor groups to sever ties in the movement's biggest schism since the 1930s.


The four dissident unions, representing nearly one-third of the AFL-CIO's 13 million members, announced they were boycotting the federation's convention that begins Monday, a step that was widely considered to be a precursor to leaving the federation.

They are part of the Change to Win Coalition, a group of seven unions vowing to accomplish what the AFL-CIO has failed to do: Reverse the decades-long decline in union membership. But many union presidents, labor experts and Democratic Party leaders fear the split will weaken the movement politically and hurt unionized workers who need a united and powerful ally against business interests and global competition. ...

[kevsand]

1. Bastards.

The Change to Win folks just proved to me that they could care less about working people. They only care about their individual fiefdoms, and their personal power. It's going to be twice as hard now to get people motivated to get anything done.

[katsy]

2. The united & powerful ally against

business interests and global competion labor needed WAS the Democratic Party.

How did cafta pass the senate again????

[noamnety]

3. Nothing says "Solidarity" like infighting.

I think they may have missed the concept of "union."

[MercutioATC]

4. And we just started contract negotions on Friday...

NOT a good thing...