What Does the AFL-CIO Split Mean?
Author(s): Chris Kutalik Excerpt: To get to this year’s heated AFL-CIO convention in Chicago, you had to walk the length of the newly remodeled Navy Pier, past a funhouse complete with a massive maze of mirrors. Watching people lost in confusion inside the maze, it was hard not to think about the tangled mess that was unfolding a hundred yards away . . . . Story Body: To get to this year’s heated AFL-CIO convention in Chicago, you had to walk the length of the newly remodeled Navy Pier, past a funhouse complete with a massive maze of mirrors. Watching people lost in confusion inside the maze, it was hard not to think about the tangled mess that was unfolding a hundred yards away. Fallout from the late July departure of three of the AFL-CIO’s largest unions — Service Employees (SEIU), Teamsters (IBT), and United Food and Commercial Workers (UFCW) — has yet to be sorted out. The new Change to Win Coalition (CTW) and the AFL-CIO continue to react and counter-react to each other’s thrusts
