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08-25-2023, 11:54 AM

SEIU And The Carpenters: 'Changing To Win' Or Changing The Wrong Way? - PopularResistance.Org

https://popularresistance.org/seiu-and-the-carpenters-still-changing-to-win-or-changing-the-wrong-way/

In a recent conversation with an otherwise well-informed young labor activist, I made a passing reference to Change to Win, a national labor federation formed in 2005 by defectors from the AFL-CIO. “Change to what?” she asked. “Never heard of it.” Her response was not surprising, given the short shelf life of the organizational brand in question. Launched with much media fanfare, Change to Win initially represented 5.5 million workers, about one-fifth of the AFL’s total membership. Its founders—the Service Employees, Teamsters, Carpenters, Laborers, United Farm Workers, Food and Commercial Workers, and UNITE-HERE—saw themselves as the second coming of the Congress of Industrial Organizations (CIO)
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08-25-2023, 11:55 AM

always read Steve Early on Unions
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