Labor expert Ruth Milkman has favorably described the breakaway Change to Win Coalition as labor's best, and perhaps only, hope for revitalization. Comparing the situation of the AFL-CIO now to that in the 1930s, when the division of the American Federation of Labor into two groups set off a surge of unionism, Milkman argues that the SEIU-led dissidents have the potential to provide the same resurgence. Though Milkman believes SEIU president Andy Stern is impatient and abrasive, the author holds that Stern's union can provide the blueprint for organizing success in the future.
See "A More Perfect Union", Ruth Milkman, The New York Times, June 29, 2005