WASHINGTON—After almost 20 years officially on the outside, the gigantic Service Employees are formally bringing their two million members back into the AFL-CIO. The result is a larger, more unified labor movement materializing just before the anti-labor Trump administration takes hold in Washington.
  • starkillerfish [she/her]
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    9 days ago

    isnt that the one with police unions and mil industry unions too? not sure that strengthening AFL-CIO is any good for labour except subordinating the struggle to a soc dem agenda at best

    • Dimmer06 [he/him,comrade/them]
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      9 days ago

      Both of these organizations include police unions. I'm not sure if SEIU represents any MIC workers but the AFL-CIO certainly does.

      I don't think we should just write the unions off as too conservative because many people in these organizations are quite radical, but we should also be very careful not to tail them like basically every left org in the US does. It's imperative that we develop a strong analysis and critique of these unions as well as relations to their members that can be relied on to connect the unions to the communist movement.