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"The fight is never about grapes or lettuce. It is always about people." Cesar Chavez |
:: Sunday, February 27, 2005 ::
Sweeney predicts major changes at AFL-CIO By Mark Gruenberg, Workday Minnesota
Service Employees President Andrew Stern set off the revamp debate last June by calling the federation loose and outmoded. Otherwise, it should be blown up, and SEIU would pull out.
Stern demanded the AFL-CIO become more top-down, that it force mergers to cut its present 58 unions to 20 and that it pump more money--labor-wide--into organizing. And he advocated a massive campaign to organize Wal-Mart and to show that its anti-worker attitudes, low pay and no benefits cut living standards.
In the interview, Sweeney didn't go quite that far. He opposes forced mergers, but favors an alternative, first presented by the Teamsters, to encourage mergers through rebates of part of unions' annual dues to the federation.------------------------------------------- posted 2:33 PM :: reference link ::
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