[Elyse]

I went to their website and looked up their planned events for Washington DC. They have the Walter Reed hospital down as a weekly event. Isn't this monthly event special?

Union Organizing - AFL-CIO Organizing Institute Fridays Monthly Event Workshop occurs several times per month, Nationally. Please get in touch with Contact--or visit website for details Three-day free workshop (housing and meals included) teaching basics of grassroots labor organizing. Affiliate Unions of AFL-CIO will be present to place people in paid positions.

I hate unions with a passion.

[Proud_USA_Republican]

There was an annoucement yesterday that the NEA, the biggest teachers union in the US with millions of members, has joined the AFL-CIO.

Can someones please explain why a teachers association needs union muscle?