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Will They Stay or Will They Go? The CFL and the Illinois AFL-CIO

The AFL-CIO leadership drew a hard line Thursday, saying that state and local labor movements cannot take money or otherwise work officially with union locals and councils belonging to internationals that are not affiliated with the AFL-CIO.
Chicago Federation of Labor:

Executive Board Members of the Chicago Federation of Labor from international unions affiliated with the Change to Win Coalition who have already disaffiliated from the AFL-CIO. ( Note: On Friday, July 29, the day after the Convention ended, the UFCW withdrew affiliation from the AFL-CIO)

- Thomas Balanoff, SEIU Local 1
- Byron Hobbs, SEIU Local 20
- Kenneth R. Boyd, UFCW Local 1546
- John T. Coli, Teamsters Joint Council 25
- Robert A. Hogan, Teamsters Local 714

Officers: - CFL Secretary-Treasurer Tim Leahy. Prior to working for the CFL, Leahy held the positions of Collective Bargaining Representative and Vice President/Executive Board Member of Local 881 of the United Food and Commercial Workers International Union, which represents 37,000 retail, healthcare, professional and service industry employees in Illinois, Indiana, and portions of Missouri.

Executive Board Members of the Chicago Federation of Labor whose International unions currently affiliated to the Change to Win Coalition, but have not yet disaffiliated from the AFL-CIO:

- Lynn Talbott, UNITE
- Henry J. Tamarin, HERE Local 1
- James P. Connolly, Laborers District Council
- Martin Umlauf, Chicago Regional Carpenters

Source: Chicago Federation of Labor - www.cflonline.org/about.php

Illinois AFL-CIO:

Executive Board Members of the Illinois AFL-CIO from international unions affiliated to the Change to Win Coalition who have already disaffiliated from the AFL-CIO

- Christine Boardman, SEIU
- Ronald Powell, UFCW
- Robert Miller, GCC-IBT
- Thomas Claire, IBT

Executive Board Members of the Illinois AFL-CIO whose International unions currently affiliated to the Change to Win Coalition, but have not yet disaffiliated from the AFL-CIO:

- Joe Costigan, UNITE
- Jeff Isaacson, Carpenters (ex officio)

Source: Illinois AFL-CIO - www.ilafl-cio.org/default.htm
 
 

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