Unite Here, a union of 450,000 workers in the apparel and hospitality industry, is leaving the AFL-CIO to join a group of dissident unions that want the organized labor movement to spend more time and money recruiting new members.
Unite Here’s general executive board voted unanimously Tuesday to disaffiliate from the AFL-CIO, the giant labor federation of more than 50 unions that represented more than 13 million workers before the split.
