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Article: 2 major unions bolt AFL-CIO, plan to do `something new'.
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- Chicago Tribune (Chicago, IL)
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- July 25, 2005
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Byline: Stephen Franklin and Barbara Rose
CHICAGO _ Throwing the nation's already troubled unions into an era of uncertainty, the Teamsters and Service Employees International Union walked out of the AFL-CIO on Monday, accusing the labor federation of falling behind the times.
"What was being done at the AFL-CIO was not working and we are going to do something new," said Teamsters president James P. Hoffa as he and SEIU president Andy Stern explained their unions' departure at the start of the AFL-CIO's four-day convention in Chicago.
From high-ranking AFL-CIO officials to heads of local union labor councils, the departure of the two powerful ...