September 2007

by Linda Averill

In 2006, a CBS profile of Andy Stern called the president of Service Employees International Union “a new breed of union boss.” Another description might be same old breed, on steroids.

It’s been two years since Stern and officials of six other unions split the largest US labor federation, the AFL-CIO, and created Change to Win (CTW). The heads of SEIU, Teamsters, United Food and Commercial Workers, UNITE-HERE, Laborers, Carpenters, and United Farm Workers vowed to chart a new course. They said they would organize new workers into labor’s fold and follow a more independent . . .