If you’re looking for the next possible key turn-of-the-screw development in the labor movement’s saga, keep your eye on a few days in June. On June 10-12th, the executive board of the Service Employees meets in San Francisco. At that meeting, it’s expected that the board will give Andy Stern the authority to pull SEIU out of the Federation; right now, the various locals are being polled about that option…you don’t poll and, then, hold an e-board vote if you’re not pretty sure of the outcome.

Then, on the 13th, the AFL-CIO’s Executive Committee meets. Coming right after the SEIU meeting and the obvious press attention to the expected pull-out authorization, the AFL-CIO confab will certainly be an interesting meeting.

Steven Greenhouse has a story in today’s Times about the whole situation. It doesn’t advance the story at all and is kind of a rehash of his own stories. But, I guess for the average Times reader and the irrelevancy of the labor movement to most of them, it’s no harm.