AFL-CIO SPLIT

AFL-CIO SPLIT * This year's golden anniversary of the marriage between the American Federation of Labor (AFL) and Congress of Industrial Organizations (CIO) has been marred by a messy divorce. Unions representing one-third of the AFL-CIO's 13 million members walked out on the eve of its convention in Chicago in late July. As a result, the U.S. now has two competing national labour federations, just as it did prior to 1955. The rival grouping - known as the Change to Win Coalition (CTWC) - includes the Service Employees International Union, the United Food and Commercial Workers, Teamsters, an...