The ever fundamental Kelber, however, sees a plan B if the AFL-CIO does not change. "Union members should be thinking about creating a new bottoms-up labor federation," he urges, reminding them that in the nineteen thirties, the Committee of Industrial Organizations (CIO) seceded from the American Federation of Labor (AFL) and went on "to organize millions of workers in such major corporations as General Motors, General Electric, US Steel, Westinghouse, Hormel and others."
The new labor federation, he envisions, for today's times would be controlled by the membership and led by local unions and central labor councils that are impatient with the sluggish leadership of their international union presidents.
Harry Kelber, you epitomize the saying that "the only true aging is the erosion of one's ideals."
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