{"id":131,"date":"2005-09-27T17:39:11","date_gmt":"2005-09-27T15:39:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ericlee.info\/blog\/?p=131"},"modified":"2005-09-27T17:39:11","modified_gmt":"2005-09-27T15:39:11","slug":"hansen-proposes-constitution-for-new-federation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ericlee.info\/blog\/hansen-proposes-constitution-for-new-federation\/","title":{"rendered":"Hansen proposes constitution for new federation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Joe Hansen, president of the 1.4 million member United Food and Commercial Workers (UFCW) has just proposed adoption of the constitution for the new federation.  &#8220;We are here to change course,&#8221; he said.  &#8220;Adoption of the constitution is the first step.&#8221;<br \/>\nThe constitution proposes what James Hoffa called a &#8220;lean, mean organizing machine&#8221; &#8212; a federation of unions with a small bureaucracy at the center, <strong>committed to spending 75% of its income on organizing<\/strong>.<br \/>\nA small Leadership Council will run the new federation, and strategic organizing will be the focus of Change to Win&#8217;s activity.  The fee for membership will be only $0.25 per member per month &#8212; far lower than what the AFL-CIO currently charges its members.<br \/>\nLike the CIO in the 1930s, the constitution obliges the new federation to focus on industry-wide organizing, spanning across multiple unions.<br \/>\nAs I write these words, Anna Burger is providing delegates with a summary of the constitution.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Joe Hansen, president of the 1.4 million member United Food and Commercial Workers (UFCW) has just proposed adoption of the constitution for the new federation. &#8220;We are here to change course,&#8221; he said. &#8220;Adoption of&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[25],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-131","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-change-to-win-founding-convention"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ericlee.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/131","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ericlee.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ericlee.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ericlee.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ericlee.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=131"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ericlee.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/131\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ericlee.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=131"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ericlee.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=131"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ericlee.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=131"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}