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December 04, 2001
AFL-CIO Sets Goals at Convention
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Topping the agenda, according to the Reuters news agency, will be addressing the labor movement's two main challenges: electing labor-friendly lawmakers in 2002 and winning the share of the American workforce it lost in recent decades.
Officials will ask the nearly 1,000 delegates from the labor federation's 66 affiliated unions to approve a policy of asking labor-backed politicians to use their influence to assist union organizing campaigns, Reuters reports.
"We will link politics and organizing together by involving and educating public officials and insisting they not only condemn employer violations of workers' rights but also actively support workers who want to organize," a resolution to be considered by the convention states.
That means unions would ask the public officials and candidates for office they support to help out in union recruitment drives by attending rallies, writing letters, urging employers to stay neutral, holding hearings, and denying government contracts to companies that violate labor laws.
The idea reflects the labor movement's growing success at delivering votes on Election Day - and its frustration with federal labor law, which leaders regard as inadequate for protecting organizers.
Labor has become a much more potent political force since Republicans won control of Congress in 1994, despite being hugely outspent by business. One poll shows union households accounting for a record 26 percent of voters in the 2000 elections, up from 19 percent in 1994. About two-thirds voted Democratic.
Still, the organization has failed to turn around the decades-long decline in the percentage of American workers belonging to unions. From the 1950s, when about one-third of all workers were union members, the percentage fell to 14.9 percent in 1995, then to 13.5 percent last year.
But the number of union members was steady at 16.3 million, off slightly from 16.4 million in 1995. Of the total, the AFL-CIO's 66 unions had 13.2 million members as of June.
AFL-CIO President John Sweeney, 67, and other top officers whose insurgent campaigns promised to reinvigorate the labor movement in 1995, are set to be nominated for four-year terms on Wednesday.