Unity is Strength?
Tommorow the AFL-CIO's 50th anniversary convention opens in Chicago - amidst a great deal of rancour and talk of a possible split.
I've posted quite a bit about this before (google AFL-CIO in the google-box at the top of this blog) and you read the AFL-CIO's proposals here. Counter proposals can be found here.
I suppose the key question is 'will a split in the AFL-CIO make the American labour movement stronger or weaker'? Cast your vote in the comments section.
posted by Paul @ Sunday, July 24, 2005
4 Comments:
Weaker
Just piked up that 4 unions - the SEIU, UNITE-HERE, Teamsters and UFCW have announced that they are boycotting this week's convention....
Stronger - the SEIU are showing the way for organizing in the US. The bulk of non-organizing unions need the wake-up call.
Shop-workers union, the UFCW, have also announced they are leaving the AFL-CIO.
Any views on the 'politics' of all this. I'm a big advocate of 'organising' and the need for unions to invest more in growth - but obviously organising is not an end in itself. What wider 'vision' unites the SEIU, Teamsters etc? Any views?
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