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Line 36: On the eve of the 2005 AFL-CIO convention, SEIU, along with its Change to Win partners, the [[Teamsters]] union, and the [[United Food and Commercial Workers]] Union, announced that it was disaffiliating from the AFL-CIO after the 50-year-old labor federation declined to pass the Coalition's suggested reforms. The [[Change to Win Federation]] held its founding convention in September 2005, where SEIU Secretary-Treasurer [[Anna Burger]] was announced as the organizations' Chair. As with other Change to Win unions, many individual SEIU locals remain affiliated to regional AFL-CIO bodies through "solidarity charters." According to a story published in the ''[[New York Times]]'' on December 11, 2008, the SEIU was "badly embarrassed" when the union was named in the federal criminal complaint authored by the team led by US Attorney [[Patrick Fitzgerald]] that charged [[Rod R. Blagojevich]], [[Governor of Illinois]], with attempting to gain illicit financial benefits via the appointment of the state’s next senator, replacing [[Barack Obama]]. The article names [[Tom Balanoff]], president of SEIU Illinois Council, Vice President of its International Executive Board, as well as the President of SEIU Local 1, as being involved.<ref>[http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090123/ap_on_re_us/illinois_governor_advisor_b;_ylt=AssfcSzhn5XSgyS2AMsgjsqs0NUE "Top Democratic Consultant on FBI Blagojevich Tapes", Associated Press via Yahoo News (January 22, 2009)]</ref> The article also notes that Illinois branch of the SEIU issued a statement saying, “We have no reason to believe that S.E.I.U. or any S.E.I.U. official was involved in any misconduct.” On December 30, 2008, Juan Gonzalez of the ''[[New York Daily News]]'' summarized charges of corruption in various SEIU locals across the country.<ref>[http://www.nydailynews.com/news/2008/12/30/2008-12-30_seiu_president_andy_stern_is_a_threat_to.html Juan Gonzalez, "Andy Stern Is a Threat to Labor's Soul", ''New York Daily News'' (December 30, 2008)]</ref> ===Recent organizing===