Biggest US union coalition faces historic low union membership.
by Anna Palmer
The AFL-CIO is in survival mode.
Over the next six months, the group will engage in an unprecedented self-evaluation that will result in a new strategic plan that leaders say could open the door to nonunion workers and alliances with old rivals.
But with union membership sinking to historic lows and their dominance in Democratic politics threatened, unions realize they must reinvent themselves to reassert their remaining influence.
“We’ve been talking about the crisis that we’re in and the fact that we need to change and I wanted to make sure that we used this process to address that and be honest with ourselves,” AFL-CIO President Richard Trumka told reporters. “Not to play ‘I gotcha,’ but to be able to say, ‘Here’s where we’re doing things right. Here’s where we’re doing things mediocre. Here’s where we’re doing things terrible.’ We have to change so we bring the bottom of the floor level up.”
Top union leaders spent hours in their executive council meeting this week at the Buena Vista Palace Hotel in Orlando, Fla., putting in place a process that will focus on growth and innovation before their quadrennial convention in September….
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