Tiny labor.(Flip Side)(AFL-CIO)(Column) From: The Progressive | Date: August 1, 2005| Author: Ehrenreich, Barbara | COPYRIGHT 2005 The Progressive, Inc. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group.Copyright information

As that modern-day Titanic, the AFL-CIO, drifted toward the iceberg, the folks in the lower decks seemed curiously unconcerned. The SEIU, UFCW, Teamsters, Laborers, and UNITE-HERE have formed their own newly announced Change to Win Coalition, and some of them threatened to bolt the AFL-CIO entirely if President John Sweeney was reelected. But Tom Lewandowski, president of the Northeast Indiana Central Labor Council, concludes that after several lengthy discussions among his delegat...

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