Black labor calls for new “Gary” convention
At their recent meeting in Phoenix, the Coalition of Black Trade Unionists demanded that the institutional role of non-whites and women in AFL-CIO structures become deeper and stronger — a functional part of the organizational chart — rather than an informal afterthought.
John Sweeney’s failure to fund AFL-CIO constituent groups during the 2004 campaign, followed by the Group of Five’s bid to read them out of the Executive Council, on top of the worst setbacks for Black workers since the demise of Jim Crow, all combined to make a much more independent Black labor strategy inevitable.
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