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AFL-CIO

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abbreviation for

  1. American Federation of Labor and Congress of Industrial Organizations: a federation of trade unions formed in 1955 by merger.


AFL-CIO

abbreviation for

  1. American Federation of Labor and Congress of Industrial Organizations: a federation of independent American trade unions formed by the union of these two groups in 1955
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AFL-CIO

  1. Abbreviation for the American Federation of Labor–Congress of Industrial Organizations, two groups that merged in 1955 to become the largest federation of labor unions in the United States. Member unions, including a variety of workers from machinists to musicians, make up over seventy percent of the unionized labor force in the United States.
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Notes

Though officially nonpartisan, the AFL-CIO has strong traditional ties with the Democratic party .
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Example Sentences

The day started at 9 a.m. outside the headquarters of the Nevada AFL-CIO.

Others included AFL-CIO President Elizabeth Shuler - a major union leader - and Brent Booker, the president of the Laborers’ International Union of North America.

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President Ronald Reagan had just spoken to members of the AFL-CIO at a Hilton hotel not far from the White House.

“It’s already hard when you have these huge companies with billions of dollars,” said Kjersten Forseth, who represents the Colorado’s AFL-CIO, a federation of labor unions that opposes Colorado’s bill.

Fed’s parent organization, the AFL-CIO, issued its own statement calling for a “negotiated cease-fire in Gaza” while condemning the attacks on Oct.

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