2 years after labor split, Change to Win reflects

[Omaha Steve]

http://www.suntimes.com/business/571425,CST-FIN-changee24.article

LABOR | Boosting membership remains job No. 1

September 24, 2007
BY FRANCINE KNOWLES [e-mail]

Two years after its controversial birth, Change to Win labor federation is making good on its pledge to reinvigorate the labor movement with more expansive and comprehensive organizing targeting tens of thousands of workers, its leaders contend.

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Helping organize and raise the pay and benefits of thousands of hotel workers across the country, in an effort led by Unite Here, is among Change to Win?s campaigns.
(Scott Stewart/Sun-Times file ph

But as the group prepares to kick off its second convention here Tuesday, those efforts haven't yet produced a payoff in increased union membership or deeper penetration in existing business sectors.

But as the group prepares to kick off its second convention here Tuesday, those efforts haven't yet produced a payoff in increased union membership or deeper penetration in existing business sectors.

Change to Win, formed by seven unions that broke from the AFL-CIO after disagreements on how to best organize, says it is targeting several major organizing campaigns:

Change to Win, formed by seven unions that broke from the AFL-CIO after disagreements on how to best organize, says it is targeting several major organizing campaigns:

• • 90,000 ports drivers in California, Florida and Washington, led by the Teamsters.
• • More than 30,000 school bus drivers led by the Teamsters and Service Employees International Union.

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