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Article: Split poses dilemma for labor's allies: religious activists urge reconciliation, focus on workplace rights.
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- National Catholic Reporter
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- August 12, 2005
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Like longtime friends of a recently estranged couple, American labor's allies face a dilemma. Openly siding with one party over the other, wherever their sympathies may truly lie, can worsen the split and make reconciliation more difficult
The decision of the 1.8 million Service Employees International Union (SEIU) and two of its allies in the "Change to Win Coalition" to abandon labor's central federation puts labor's associates in the civil rights, political, and religious communities in just such a position. Compounding the problem: Many see merit in both sides of the labor family fight.
On one level, SEIU's departure from the AFL-CIO, along with ...