AFL-CIO
AFL-CIO AFL-CIO American Federation of Labor and Congress of ... Affiliation ICFTU Key people John J. Sweeney, president Office location Washington, DC Website aflcio. ...
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AFL (trade union)   (translated from German)
AFL (trade union) Those AFL (American Federation OF labour) one of the ... Gompers was up to its death 1924 president of the AFL. The AFL was in the first half ders ...
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John Sweeney (labor leader)
... in The Bronx, New York) is the president of the AFL-CIO. An AFL-CIO vice president since 1980, he was ...
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Congress of Industrial Organizations
... Organizations The Congress of Industrial Organizations, or CIO, was a federation of unions that organized ... American Federation of Labor to pressure the AFL, which had either opposed or given only ... change its policies. After failing to change AFL policy from within, five of these eight unions split from the AFL to found the Congress of Industrial Organizations ... as a rival federation in 1938. The CIO rejoined the AFL, forming the new ...
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Labor unions in the United States
... contrast to the craft unionism of the AFL, the Industrial Workers of the World (IWW ... s Committee for Industrial Organizations within the AFL. Founded in 1933, the committee split from the AFL in 1938 as the Congress of Industrial Organizations (CIO). The Red Scare after World War II pushed the AFL and CIO into a 1955 merger ...
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Teamsters
... II, particularly after its expulsion from the AFL-CIO in 1957, raiding other unions' jurisdictions and ... the election of Ron Carey as General President in 1991. He was succeeded in 1998 ... In 2005, the Teamsters disaffiliated from the AFL-CIO, opting to join the the Service ...
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Talk:United Food and Commercial Workers
... Calif. grocery workers strike -- dubious claims about AFL-CIO It is not clear that the statement in the second paragraph (that the AFL-CIO failed to mobilize its national resources at ... statement in the last paragraph (that the AFL-CIO's failure to mobilize was ...
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Communists in the U.S. Labor Movement (1937-1950)
... aftermath of World War II and the CIO's expulsion of the unions in which ... opponents within the UAW. Homer Martin , first president of the UAW, sought to drive out ... on the UAW's Executive Board. The CIO leadership, alarmed by the possibility that sectarian ... Board members, with the support of the CIO, regained control in 1939 and expelled Martin ... his own union, which affiliated with the AFL. Lovestone left with him. The CP ...
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Communists in the U.S. Labor Movement (1919-1937)
... aftermath of World War II and the CIO's expulsion of the unions in which ... U.S. communists to work within the AFL in order to make it a revolutionary ... a communist party. He had led the AFL's failed 1919 strike in the steel ... close relations then with John Fitzpatrick, the President of the Chicago Federation of Labor. TUEL ... leaving them without major allies when the AFL denounced TUEL as a " dual union " ...
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American Federation of Labor
... of Labor The American Federation of Labor (AFL) was one of the first federations of ... Trades and Labor Unions. Gompers was the president of the AFL until his death in 1924. The AFL was the largest union grouping in the ... creation of the Congress of Industrial Organizations (CIO) by unions that left the AFL ...
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