The merger between the American Federation of Labor and the Congress of Industrial Organizations that founded the AFL-CIO in 1955 wasn’t easy to pull off
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1866 National Labor Union founded ... 1957 AFL-CIO expels two affiliates for corruption ... 1965 AFL-CIO forms A. Philip Randolph Institute César Chávez forms AFL-CIO United Farm Workers Organizing Committee...
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U.S. federation of labour unions formed in 1955 by the merger of the AFL and the CIO. The AFL was founded in 1886 as a loose federation of craft unions under the leadership of Samuel Gompers. Member unions retained autonomy and received protection of their workers and jurisdiction over a certain industrial territory.
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The American Federation of Labor and Congress of Industrial Organizations , commonly AFL-CIO , is a national trade union center, the largest federation of unions in the United States and Canada, m...
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The program is hosted by New York State AFL-CIO President Denis Hughes and addresses a wide range of social, political and economic issues from the point of view of working people. The show attracts a diverse collection of guests from the worlds of politics, literature, entertainment, and of course labor.
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Intern at the Massachusetts AFL-CIO ... The Mass. AFL-CIO and the Mass. Democratic Party ... Massachusetts AFL-CIO: Secretary of State Bill Galvin is Working Families' Candidate...
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Without the pioneering efforts of the Knights of Labor, many other umbrella organizations such as the American Federation of Labor and the Congress of Industrial Organizations, later to be the AFL-CIO, would have faced much more difficulty in getting founded.
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Snohomish County Labor Council is an AFL-CIO federation of 65 unions in Snohomish County, Washington ... Buy Union The Union Label and Service Trades Department, AFL-CIO, was founded in 1909 to promote the products and services produced in America by union members. The Union Shop...
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The American Federation of Labor (AFL) was one of the first federations of labor unions in the United States. It was founded in Columbus, Ohio in 1886 by Samuel Gompers as a reorganization of its pr...
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