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The AFL-CIO spends about half of its $80-million annual budget on foreign projects. Forty million dollars is a lot of money, and the way that it is spent can have a terrific impact-especially in poor countries where unions lack financial resources.
The Department of International Affairs (DIA) of the AFL-CIO and the four regional institutes that cover the world are powerful actors in the world labor movement. But they are not representative of the membership or the leadership of the affiliated bodies.
The DIA and the four institutes are practically separate empires inside the federation. Their money is federal money. The presidents of the affiliate unions sit on their boards and, in theory, control them.