Labor Unions' Future

In one of my previous posts I talked about how the American Federation of Labor, or AFL for short, was protecting many Americans in the labor force by providing organization for the different unions that are necessary for employees. Fairly recently though, at the AFL-CIO (1955 the American Federation of Labor combined with the Congress of Industrial Organizations to form the AFL-CIO) 50th anniversary convention Split in half as seven unions formed the competitor organization Change to Win. This was not a good change for employees everywhere. The reason why the AFL-CIO was such a successful organization is because it was every union organized together. There was no need for a rival organization, in fact, I think that forming Change to Win not only weakened the AFL-CIO but it did not even set itself up for success. Two organization will never be as good as one because it will always lack the organization over all of the unions. It is the consistencies with the union practices that made them stronger, now for many unions that consistency is gone. I do not believe that this change was good, but I do not believe that any inteded change can bo horrible. I think that this new system will work, just not as good as it used to.

Prah, Pamela M. "Labor Unions' Future." CQ Researcher 15.30 (2005): 709-732. CQ Researcher. Web. 8 Feb. 2010. .