This year, America's largest union federation, the American Federation of Labour and Congress of Industrial Organisations (AFL-CIO), has lost several of its major unions. Initiated by the Service Employees International Union (SEIU) and the International Brotherhood of Teamsters, and swiftly joined by the United Food and Commercial Workers (UFCW), among others, the split clearly represents a considerable loss of funding and support for the AFL-CIO. But the reasons for the [...]