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Two big unions reach accord to end feud

Tuesday, Sept. 20, 2005 | 9:31 a.m.

Two of the nation's largest unions -- the service employees and the state, county and municipal employees -- agreed Monday to end a long-running feud by pledging not to raid each other's membership.

The two unions had devoted hundreds of workers and hundreds of thousands of dollars in the last six months to a fight over which should represent child-care employees in Illinois and home health care workers in California.

In the California case, the Service Employees International Union sought to attract 8,000 home care helpers in Riverside County who were represented by the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees, or Afscme.

In the Illinois case, the presidents of Afscme and the service employees engaged in a profanity-filled exchange at an AFL-CIO meeting in March over who should represent 49,000 unorganized child-care workers. The labor federation eventually gave jurisdiction to the service employees.

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