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Article: 5 AFL-CIO unions form dissident group.
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- Chicago Tribune (Chicago, IL)
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- June 16, 2005
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Byline: Stephen Franklin
Jun. 16--In the largest blow to labor solidarity in decades, the heads of five major unions Wednesday announced their own coalition and attacked the AFL-CIO for failing to halt labor's downward slide.
"Our world has changed. The world that all workers live in has changed, but quite frankly the labor movement has not changed to meet the changes," said Joe Hansen, president of the United Food and Commercial Workers union.
The new group, the Change to Win Coalition, is made of up the UFCW, Teamsters, Laborers, Service Employees International Union and Unite Here, the union formed by the merger of the hotel workers and ...