Today in St. Louis, a new federation of unions representing more than five million workers is holding its founding convention. The Change to Win Coalition's focus is on improving the living conditions of working people and organizing the 9 in 10 American workers not yet in union. The coalition consists of major unions that are dissatisfied with that organization's inability to combat slipping membership, including five that left the AFL-CIO this summer.

Participants include the the Service Employees International Union, the Teamsters, United Food and Commercial Workers, UNITE HERE, the United Brotherhood of Carpenters, and also the United Farm Workers and Laborers unions, both still AFL-CIO members.