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Article: UNIONS' EXIT SPLINTERS AFL-CIO TEAMSTERS JOIN SERVICE EMPLOYEES UNION IN BOLT.(FRONT)
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- The Wisconsin State Journal (Madison, WI)
- Article date:
- July 25, 2005
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Byline: Ron Fournier Associated Press
CHICAGO -- Jolting organized labor, the Teamsters and a massive service employees' union decided Sunday to bolt the AFL-CIO, paving way for two other labor groups to sever ties in the movement's biggest schism since the 1930s.
The four dissident unions, representing nearly one-third of the AFL-CIO's 13 million members, announced they were boycotting the federation's convention that begins today, a step that was widely considered to be a precursor to leaving the federation.
They are part of the Change to Win Coalition, a group of seven unions vowing to accomplish what the AFL-CIO has failed to do: Reverse ...