Seven breakaway unions have founded a new organization, called the Change to Win Federation, to directly rival the AFL-CIO. Leaders of the new federation said they would seek to unionize many of the 50 million workers whose jobs cannot be sent overseas or replaced by machines. Many of those jobs pay poverty-level wages and include janitors, cashiers, nursing home aides and security guards.
See "Breakaway Unions Start New Federation", Steven Greenhouse, The New York Times, September 27, 2005