Problems at the AFL-CIO
The New York Times (free registration required) reports ...Already facing upheaval and dissent from several union presidents, the A.F.L.-C.I.O. saw its problems escalate last week when the federation laid off about a fourth of its staff and the chairman of its public relations committee resigned in a fit of pique. Not only that, but four of the nation's largest unions demanded that the A.F.L.-C.I.O. remove their members' names from its master political list of 13 million workers because of a feud over sharing information.And further ...
The A.F.L.-C.I.O., a federation of 57 unions, has been in tumult for more than six months, ever since the federation's largest union, the Service Employees International Union, threatened to quit, complaining that the organization was doing far too little to reverse labor's decline.
posted by Paul Wilczynski @ 2:19 PM
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