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Congress of Industrial Organizations
noun
- a federation of affiliated industrial labor unions, founded 1935 within the American Federation of Labor but independent of it 1938–55. : C.I.O., CIO
Congress of Industrial Organizations
noun
- (in the US) a federation of industrial unions formed in 1935. It united with the AFL in 1955 to form the AFL-CIO CIO
Example Sentences
In the 1930s, the burgeoning Congress of Industrial Organizations relatively quickly won recognition from such manufacturing giants as General Motors and Westinghouse.
With about 12 million members, the American Federation of Labor and Congress of Industrial Organizations, as it is formally known, encompasses the bulk of the nation’s unions in both the public and private sectors.
The cancelled event was due to be held in the parking lot of the Texas American Federation of Labor and Congress of Industrial Organizations building.
To endorse the president, police unions and associations are bucking the American Federation of Labor and Congress of Industrial Organizations or AFL-CIO, according to a new report in The Washington Times.
These included the Congress of Industrial Organizations, two socialist organizations and the Communist Party.
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