AFL-CIO creates a group for non-union workers By STEVEN GREENHOUSE
Hoping to increase its political clout, the AFL-CIO announced yesterday that it was creating a novel organization for non-union workers who agree with the labor movement on many issues and want to campaign alongside labor on those issues.
Federation officials said they hoped the new organization, to be called Working America, would attract more than 1 million members to lobby Congress and to join demonstrations on issues from raising the minimum wage to stopping the privatization of Social Security.
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