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:: Tuesday, June 22, 2004 ::
Union Leader Urges AFL-CIO Reform By Thomas B. Edsall, Washington Post, DC
Federation Is Outdated, SEIU Head Says
The AFL-CIO has failed to keep up with the changing workplace and must be radically reinvigorated -- or replaced -- if the labor movement is to survive, the president of the nation's largest union said yesterday.
A loose federation of 13 million union workers, the AFL-CIO wields little control over the 65 individual unions that are its members and has not been effective at creating a single, powerful voice for American organized labor, Andrew L. Stern, president of the Service Employees International Union (SEIU), told a national convention of his union in San Francisco.
'Our employers have changed, our industries have changed and the world has certainly changed, but the labor movement's structure and culture have sadly stayed the same.' Union activists must 'either transform the AFL-CIO or build something stronger that can really change workers' lives,' Stern said.------------------------------------------- posted 6:12 AM :: reference link ::
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