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(Encyclopedia) Congress of Industrial Organizations: see American Federation of Labor and Congress of Industrial Organizations. ...

(Encyclopedia) American Federation of Labor and Congress of Industrial Organizations (AFL-CIO), a federation of autonomous labor unions in the United States, Canada, Mexico, Panama, and U.S. dependencies, formed in ...

(Encyclopedia) Committee for Industrial Organization: see American Federation of Labor and Congress of Industrial Organizations. ...

(Encyclopedia) industrial union, labor union composed of all the workers in a given industry, regardless of skill, craft, or occupation (as opposed to the craft union, in which all members are of one skill, such as ...

(Encyclopedia) Change to Win Federation, coalition of seven labor unions representing primarily American workers. It was founded in 2005 as the Change to Win Coalition by five American Federation of Labor and Congre...

(Encyclopedia) union, labor, association of workers for the purpose of improving their economic status and working conditions through collective bargaining with employers. Historically there have been two chief type...

(Encyclopedia) Green, William, 1872–1952, American labor leader, president of the American Federation of Labor (1924–1952), b. Coshocton, Ohio. He rose through the ranks of the United Mine Workers of America, of...

(Encyclopedia) AFL: see American Federation of Labor and Congress of Industrial Organizations. ...

(Encyclopedia) CIO: see American Federation of Labor and Congress of Industrial Organizations. ...

(Encyclopedia) AFL-CIO: see American Federation of Labor and Congress of Industrial Organizations. ...