In labor news, leaders of the AFL-CIO’s breakaway unions met to officially form a new labor federation called the Change to Win federation. Anna Burger of SEIU was selected as the federation’s chairwoman and Edgar Romney of UNITE HERE was selected as treasurer. It’s the first time a woman and an African American, respectively, have reached such pinnacles of leadership in the U.S. labor movement. The group announced one of its chief goals will be to organize workers at Wal-Mart.