Change to Win elects Hansen, Hoffa as leaders

[Omaha Steve]

http://www.workdayminnesota.org/index.php?news_6_4639

3 October 2010

WASHINGTON - The Change To Win board elected United Food and Commercial Workers President Joe Hansen as the labor federation’s new chair on Sept. 30. It also elected Teamsters President James Hoffa as secretary-treasurer.

Hansen succeeds founding chair Anna Burger, who resigned both that post and her secretary-treasurer’s position at SEIU on Sept. 11. Hoffa succeeds Edgar Romney, whose union, UNITE HERE, split and left CTW to rejoin the AFL-CIO.

Change To Win now includes SEIU, the Teamsters, UFCW and the United Farm Workers. The Laborers left it to rejoin the AFL-CIO on Oct. 1. UNITE HERE split and left several months ago. The Carpenters left a year ago and are unaffiliated with anybody.


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