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Trumka: AFL-CIO to undergo wide-scale revamp
http://peoplesworld.org/trumka-afl-cio-to-undergo-wide-scale-revamp/ORLANDO, Fla. - The AFL-CIO will examine and create a new and different internal and external structure, to be considered at its convention in Los Angeles in September, federation President Richard Trumka says.
The revamp is necessary, he added, to meet the conditions of changing workplaces, extend labor's reach to allied and community groups, and to shift its emphasis within the federation to more inter-union and regional cooperation.
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Trumka says the fed will hold open community meanings, inviting unionists, non-AFL-CIO unions, youth, academics, community allies and others to discuss ways to change that structure and to more widely represent workers.
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Those new forms include chartering more worker centers, expanding Working America - the fed's 3.2-million member community affiliate for workers who can't or won't join unions - and other "non-collective bargaining forms of representation."
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