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AFL-CIO. The American Federation of Labor and Congress of Industrial Organizations ( AFL-CIO) is a national trade union center that is the largest federation of unions in the United States. It is made up of 60 national and international unions, [2] together representing more than 12 million active and retired workers. [1]
The National Football League Players Association (NFLPA) was decertified in 2010 as players faced a lockout, but reformed and rejoined the AFL–CIO in 2011. [ 34] The National Taxi Workers Alliance (also known as the New York Taxi Workers Alliance) affiliated with the AFL–CIO as well. It was the first non-traditional workers' organization to ...
The American Federation of Labor ( A.F. of L.) was a national federation of labor unions in the United States that continues today as the AFL–CIO. It was founded in Columbus, Ohio, in 1886 by an alliance of craft unions eager to provide mutual support and disappointed in the Knights of Labor. Samuel Gompers was elected the full-time president ...
The Congress of Industrial Organizations (CIO) was a federation of unions that organized workers in industrial unions in the United States and Canada from 1935 to 1955. . Originally created in 1935 as a committee within the American Federation of Labor (AFL) by John L. Lewis, a leader of the United Mine Workers (UMW), and called the Committee for Industrial Orga
Elizabeth H. Shuler (born 1970) is an American labor activist and, since August 5, 2021, President of the AFL–CIO. She is the first woman to be elected president of the federation. [1] [2] She was previously the first woman and (as of 2009) the youngest person to hold the position of Secretary-Treasurer. [1] [3] [4] She is the highest-ranking ...
The International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers ( IAM) is an AFL–CIO / CLC trade union representing approx. 646,933 workers as of 2006 in more than 200 industries with most of its membership in the United States and Canada.
The AFL–CIO Employees Federal Credit Union is a multiple common bond, federally chartered credit union headquartered in Washington, D.C. The credit union was founded in 1952 for members of the AFL–CIO. It currently has two locations serving 9,723 members. AFL–CIO Employees FCU has assets of $76 million. [1] [2] The most current annual ...
The Communications Workers of America ( CWA) is the largest communications and media labor union in the United States, representing about 700,000 members in both the private and public sectors (also in Canada and Puerto Rico ). [ 1][ 2] The union has 27 locals in Canada via CWA-SCA Canada (French: Syndicat des communications d'Amérique ...