AFL-CIO Unrest May Lead to BCTD Split.

This article reports that the leaders of five large labor unions unhappy with the American Federation of Labor and Congress of Industrial Organization leadership have formed the Change to Win Coalition to address the urgent need for a large-scale, coordinated effort to rebuild the U.S. labor movement in the face of globalization. Uniting the five unions, which represent a variety of industries including construction, is the goal of expanding organizing efforts and growing market share. Each of the five member unions; laborers, teamsters, service employees, food and commercial workers, and hospitality and textile workers separately submitted proposals for change to the labor federation's leaders