AFL-CIO: Trouble In Union City
The ASSociated Press has Organized Labor at Crossroads With Feud.
A politically charged feud over the future of organized labor comes to a climax this week when nearly 1,000 delegates gather to celebrate the 50th year of the AFL-CIO.
Four of the federation’s 56 affiliates, representing about one-third of its dues-paying union members, are threatening to leave Chicago before the convention begins Monday and, eventually, bolt the AFL-CIO itself.
A divided House of Labor threatens the Democratic Party, which relies on the AFL-CIO’s organizing powers on Election Day, and could affect the livelihoods of 13 million workers represented by the federation’s affiliates. Whether the civil war jolts organized labor from its slumber or hastens its decline is a subject of intense debate.
“Divided we fall,” said Gerald McEntee, president of a government workers’ union who hopes to keep the AFL-CIO intact.
On the flip side, Andy Stern of the Service Employees International Union is leading an effort to overthrow his former mentor, AFL-CIO President John Sweeney, and radically overhaul the federation. He has formed a coalition of seven reform-minded unions, including the four threatening to quit the AFL-CIO if their demands on not met.
The radically socialist SEIU will help destruct the moderate union movement, AFL-CIO.
Say good bye to the American Labor Movement.
Looks like the Democrat Party will have to find another cash cow.
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