[lbo-talk] SEIU gets ready to bolt AFL-CIO

[Michael Dawson]

Where are the direct rank-and-file elections of state and national officers
here?  Would this plan abolish the existing convention-election travesty?

This is not a rip on you Lacny.  I really want to know.  I would get
involved if that were on the agenda.

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Subject: [lbo-talk] SEIU gets ready to bolt AFL-CIO

Er, at least, you'd get that impression from reading Steven Greenhouse:

http://www.nytimes.com/2004/11/10/national/10labor.html?ex=1257829200&en=680
51124572dc9f8&ei=5090&partner=rssuserland

There's also a website set up by SEIU:

http://www.unitetowin.org/

I won't give my own thoughts on this, save to note that the timing was
decided before the election, and would have happened regardless of who won.
So if the media starts saying that this is all "fallout" from the defeat,
know that that's not true. This has been in the cards for quite some time.

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