Catchy, huh? Well, that’s what greeted me at the crack of dawn here from someone in the know in the insurgents’ camp.

Big caution here: It’s only Friday and two days is an eternity in labor movement politics. But, on the other hand, a number of people tell me the percentages are quite high that on Sunday afternoon, SEIU, UNITE HERE, UFCW and the Teamsters will announce that they are leaving the Federation.

And, from looking at the long faces of many Sweeney supporters (staff and officers) entering the Executive Council meeting, there seems like a sense of inevitability. “It feels like there isn’t anything to talk about,” one staffer told me. The Council is expected to meet here at the Sheraton until this afternoon when they break for meetings of the Convention Resolutions and Constitution Committees (more on that in a subsequent post).

“I don’t think anyone on our side of the table thinks that Sweeney has the juice to get this done,” says a very senior wag. “He doesn’t like conflict and he doesn’t have the kind of relationship with [AFSCME’s prez Gerry] McEntee, [Machinists prez Tom] Buffenbarger or [CWA prez Morty] Bahr to go to them and say, ‘look, here’s the deal, if I step down, there has to be a whole new leadership team.’ Which means Trumka has to go also.”

As I reported over the course of many weeks, the insurgents did reach out privately to McEntee, AFT president Ed McElroy and others but none of them wanted to go around Sweeney. But, maybe the dynamic changes between now and Sunday. Stay Tuned.

BTW, Ed Sabol of the Communications Workers of America wrote in and said he thought it would help if people could hear directly some thoughts from some of labor’s leaders about the debate. So, here’s a link to a debate in the Nation magazine. Thanks, Ed.