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

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.

Notes

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

Example Sentences

We had seniors, blacks, whites—a real coalition of people—and we had a lot of them in Mississippi for the AFL-CIO.

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He named New Jersey Rep. Frank LoBiondo, who the AFL-CIO endorsed.

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These public-sector workers were members of divisions of the AFL-CIO and SEIU, respectively.

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Yes, these and other groups are in reality as closely tied to the Republican Party as the AFL-CIO is to the Democrats.

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“With a Republican Senate, all kinds of things are going to reach his desk,” says Bill Samuel of the AFL-CIO.

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