Change to Win

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Change to Win is the name of a trade union organization in the USA that split off from the AFL-CIO umbrella organization in July 2005 . Change to Win sees itself as an umbrella organization of several individual trade unions, which wants to strengthen the dwindling power of the trade unions by actively recruiting new members in order to be able to survive in the global labor dispute . This makes this division in the US unions the largest since the 1930s.

Change to Win represented around 4.3 million workers as of December 31, 2011.

The United Brotherhood of Carpenters (500,000 members) resigned in the summer of 2009, Unite Here (250,000 members) in September 2009, and the Laborers' International Union of North America (600,000 members) in October 2010. The latter both returned to the AFL-CIO.

Individual unions

  • International Brotherhood of Teamsters (IBT)
  • Service Employees International Union (SEIU)
  • United Farm Workers of America (UFW)
  • United Food and Commercial Workers International Union (UFCW)

literature

  • Hälker, Juri (Ed.) September 2008: Organizing - New ways of union organization. Supplement to the journal Socialism. VSA publishing house.
  • Hälker, Juri / Vellay, Claudius (Eds.) 2007: Union Renewal. Unions in renewal. Texts from international trade union research. Edition of the Hans Böckler Foundation, online text on the Internet
  • Thomas Greven (2006): Just a break or a departure? The split in the US unions. In: The Argument for Philosophy and Social Sciences 264, Volume 48, 1/2006, pp. 85–94 (special issue "Prospects for America")
  • Ingar Solty (2006): The split in the American trade unions. Symptom of decline or new beginning of the American labor movement? In: Sozialismus , 33rd volume, 1/2006, pp. 28–35
  • Interview with Lowell Turner ( Cornell University ) on the split in the AFL-CIO [1]

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ FORM LM-2 LABOR ORGANIZATION ANNUAL REPORT (CHANGE TO WIN) , online search ( memento of the original dated November 5, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. : File number: 000-385 @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / kcerds.dol-esa.gov
  2. ^ Alec MacGillis: For Unions, A Time of Opportunity And Worry. In: Washington Post. September 14, 2009, accessed November 24, 2012 .
  3. ↑ Steven Greenhouse: Union Rejoining AFL-CIO In: New York Times. September 17, 2009, accessed November 24, 2012 .
  4. ↑ Associated Press: Construction Workers' Union to Rejoin AFL-CIO In: New York Times. August 14, 2010, accessed November 24, 2012 .