Two Construction Unions Exiting AFL-CIO

Things are set for another shake-up in organized labor. According to the Wall Street Journal The once mighty AFL-CIO is losing two more unions to its roles bring the number to six within the last year.

Laborers' International Union of North America and International Union of Operating Engineers announced that they are leaving the AFL-CIO citing that there is an environment of bureacracy within the Building and Construction Trades Department that is out of touch with their needs. The Building and Construction Trades Department is a subgroup of the AFL-CIO.

This is bad news for Democratic party candidates. The power of the AFL-CIO were the amount of manpower it possessed. As it fractionalizes it loses that power. Now resources will go in multiple and possibly opposing directions.