Posted on August 16, 2010 by Seth Borden

Laborers Union to Rejoin AFL-CIO

The Laborers' International Union of North America (LIUNA) has announced that it will re-affiliate with the AFL-CIO, the nation's largest labor coalition, four years after it left to form the Change To Win coalition with the SEIU, Teamsters, UFCW and other unions.

The Hill's Blog Briefing Room reports:

LIUNA's press release noted that when it left the AFL-CIO in 2006, "the union expressed hope for an eventual reunification, continued to organize much of its political efforts through the AFL-CIO and has been engaged in ongoing discussions with the federation for some time."
 

[General President Terry] O'Sullivan praised LIUNA's partnership with Change to Win over the past several years.

“The LIUNA of today is different from the one that left the AFL-CIO, and that’s in large part due to the strength of Change to Win’s Strategic Organizing Center,” he said. “Neither our ongoing organizing efforts in weatherization and residential construction — the biggest campaigns we have ever launched — would have been launched without Change to Win.”

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