Change to Win Update

Although things are generally quiet over at the Change to Win website (notice they just updated the, umm, format), there are a couple of things afoot in the CTW camp. First of all, they are having a big organizing conference in Las Vegas next week, which will hopefully spur more joint organizing campaigns of the sort underway in Washington State. The Teamsters and the United Farm Workers are collaborating on an organizing drive in Central Washington for food processing workers. See here.

The AFL-CIO beast, on the other hand, seems to be stirring a bit more these days. I already reported on the Industry Committees, and they are taking on SEIU efforts to organize nurses by creating a Nursing Industry Organizing Committee (see here and here). This is the first direct national organizing confrontation that I've seen since the split.