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Concerned about the steady decline of organized labor, the International Brotherhood of Teamsters is proposing to cut the AFL-CIO?s budget by withholding half of the $90 million that individual unions give the federation each year. Their plan is to use that money to finance a campaign to recruit more members into the labor movement, specifically in swing states, with the ultimate goal of electing a pro-labor president and congress in 2008. Encouraging union mergers is also part of their plan to regain the level of political clout that organized labor once enjoyed.