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"The fight is never about grapes or lettuce. It is always about people." Cesar Chavez |
:: Monday, March 29, 2004 ::
The UNITE-HERE Merger: Is It a Step Forward … or Business as Usual? By William Johnson, LaborNotes
It’s been a few months now since we heard anything from the New Unity Partnership (NUP), the coalition first described here in October 2003. This coalition-composed of the presidents of the Service Employees (SEIU), Hotel and Restaurant Employees (HERE), Garment and Textile Workers (UNITE), Carpenters, and Laborers unions-planned to strengthen the U.S. labor movement by increasing union density sector by sector.
The NUP leaders have argued that the labor movement would be stronger if unions stopped rushing to become “general unions”-organizing in a wide variety of sectors-and instead focused on organizing in their core jurisdictions.
On February 26, HERE and UNITE announced that they had “agreed in principle” to merge into one union, to be called UNITE HERE. The unions report that UNITE President Bruce Raynor would serve as general president of the new union, while HERE President John Wilhelm will be president of the hospitality industries division.
While HERE’s website asserts that the two unions’ members are “the same people: service workers, immigrants, African-Americans,” it’s a stretch to say that their industries are related.------------------------------------------- posted 6:58 AM :: reference link ::
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