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Written by Gary Gross
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Friday, 28 March 2008 10:01 |
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Based on this article, I'd say that the AFL-CIO is at war with Minnesota AG Lori Swanson.
In an unusual letter aimed at Swanson, the state's highest DFL- and labor-endorsed officeholder, the head of the Minnesota AFL-CIO has asked union officials not to send any campaign contributions to the attorney general until the dispute within her office is resolved. Swanson, who took office last year, is resisting union organizing attempts in her office, saying employees of elected state officeholders cannot by law be members of a union.
That's only the tip of the proverbial iceberg:
"Everybody isn't thrilled with the letter," Diane O'Brien, a spokesperson for the state AFL-CIO, said Tuesday. "This isn't the first time labor unions have disagreed on an issue, and I think it's clear there's some disagreement."
Minnesota AFL-CIO President Ray Waldron, in a letter last month, said he made the appeal knowing that individual unions "may have their own institutional concerns, and that we all depend on the attorney general's office for legal opinions which affect our work."
It sounds like there's plenty of discord to go around. The unions and the DFL apparently aren't currently on speaking terms. How this gets settled is anybody's guess. Frankly, I don't think they know at this point.
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