The United Brotherhood of Carpenters and Joiners of America broke away from the labor federation in 2001, saying it was shifting more of its resources to organizing and was impatient for the AFL-CIO to do the same.
"The Carpenters' Union is proud to join with the most dynamic unions in the country," President Doug McCarron said in a release obtained by The Associated Press. A formal announcement was planned for Monday.
The carpenters will join with the International Brotherhood of Teamsters, Service Employees International Union, United Food and Commercial Workers, Unite Here and Laborers' International Union in the alliance called the Change to Win Coalition. The movement was created in mid-June to challenge the AFL-CIO's leadership.
The Teamsters and SEIU have both had a more flexible relationship when it comes to the GOP and the SEIU leadership has been critical of cartle blanche endorsement of the democratic party ticket.
If these new group splits off of the AFL-CIO and decides to play wild card in American politics.. consider this
The addition of the carpenters' union with its approximately 520,000 members brings the number of workers represented by unions in the coalition to nearly 6 million. The AFL-CIO is a federation of almost 60 unions with a total of roughly 13 million members, including those in the dissident unions.
That is a serious cash pool, and that is a serious problem for the Democrats if big labor goes out and decides to hire politicians, and not just be an agent of their party
this is something to keep an eye on in the future folks. Because as we have seen with President Bush it may be possible for a more Union-Friendly platform to emerge in the GOP
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