With union membership globally down, the emblematic United Food and Commercial Workers International Union, which organized the strikes that paralyzed food warehouses in California and the leader of the fight to organize Walmart, is allegedly about to joint the AFL-CIO. It had left the federation 8 years ago with other unions to focus on the poorest workers with fewer social benefits to create a rival confederation. (Ref. 130487)
The United Food and Commercial Workers (UFCW, 1.3 million members) are about to joint the AFL-CIO, the largest union federation in the US. They had left in 2005, together with the Service Employees International Union (SEIU), the truck drivers’ union (Teamsters), and the United Farm Workers (UFW), creating the Change to Win federation, more focused on unionization than lobbying for employees (and with lower membership rates). The author of a blog called Working in These Times mentions “three
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