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American Federation of LaborFederation of North American trade unions, representing through 68 affiliated unions, 13 million workers, or about 14% of the workforce in North America (2000). The AFL was founded 1886 by Samuel Gompers and was initially a union of skilled craftworkers. The CIO, representing unskilled workers, broke away from the AFL in the mid-1930s. A merger reunited them in 1955, bringing most unions into the national federation. In 1995 John Sweeney became the leader of the AFL-CIO. How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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labor movement throughout the 20th century was not the industrial
unionism that emerged in the 1930s with the Congress of Industrial
Organizations or CIO, but rather the occupationally based unionism
historically associated with the American Federation of Labor or AFL. There was
an important story at the board meeting: Dubinsky had decided that his
union ought to secede from the nascent Congress of Industrial
Organizations (CIO) to return to the American Federation of Labor. The American Federation of Labor and Congress on Industrial
Organizations as the United Farm Workers Organizing Committee, with
Chavez as its president, chartered the union in 1966. |
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