Nobody noticed that this past Friday was the first official day the Laborers were back in the AFL-CIO. I tweeted it and posted the fact on Facebook (I’ve not quite gotten back to blogging here full-time again but hope to do so soon). Which made me think: when will Change To Win officially fold? Maybe it never will but there is going to be a money issue pretty soon, I would gather.

    I understand, from a few friends in the know, that the United Food and Commercial Workers will soon return to the AFL-CIO as well. You have to love the Farm Workers history and tradition but, again, put nicely, the union is not something to base the existence of a whole Federation. So, once the UFCW is out, that leaves just two unions.

    It’s unlikely that the Teamsters will ever go back as long as the heads of the Administrations of the union and the AFL-CIO remain the same; delicately put, I doubt they would work well together. SEIU has no particular reason to return to the AFL-CIO but then what exactly is a two-union Federation? There is no reason they can’t continue to work together on a variety of efforts. But, then, why try to keep up the fiction?

    So, then what?