Press Center For Immediate Release Press Conference Wednesday With Leaders of Five Major Unions The leaders of five of the largest unions in the AFL-CIO -- Teamsters, UFCW, UNITE-HERE, Laborers', and SEIU -- will hold a press conference Wednesday, June 15, at 12:30 PM at the Laborers' International Union of North America headquarters to announce the creation of a new multi-union organization to address the urgent need for a large-scale, coordinated effort to rebuild the American labor movement in the face of globalization. The press conference will follow a meeting of 50 of the top leaders of the five unions who will adopt a Constitution and Bylaws for the new organization and develop coordinated organizing and growth plans. The five unions represent 5 million workers. They have recently partnered on a platform that would reform the AFL-CIO and bring the labor movement into the 21st Century. The platform calls for dramatic new emphasis on organizing non-union workers and for restructuring federation and affiliate activities to respond to the profound changes in the American economy.
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