The nation's largest labor federation, the AFL-CIO, and the Service Employees Union International, the nation's largest union and member of a rival labor group, argued Tuesday over who was at fault for a scuffle in Michigan between union members. What everyone agrees on is that union members tussled at the Labor Notes Conference in Dearborn, Mich., on Saturday, April 12. The networking conference was sponsored by Labor Notes, a nonprofit organization and network for rank-and-file union members and grassroots labor activists. The California Nurses Association, an AFL-CIO member, and the SEIU are competing to sign up nurses, with the SEIU complaining that the CNA is raiding its members.
See "Nation's largest union versus nation's largest labor federation in war of words over scuffle", Jesse J. Holland, Minneapolis Star Tribune, April 14, 2008