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The AFL-CIO was a major component of the New Deal Coalition that dominated politics into the mid-1960s. [11] Although it has lost membership, finances, and political clout since 1970, it remains a major player on the liberal side of national politics, with a great deal of activity in lobbying, grassroots organizing, coordinating with other liberal organizations, fund-raising, and recruiting ...
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The most important membership changes, however, occurred in 1968. The United Auto Workers (UAW) disaffiliated from the AFL-CIO on July 1, 1968, after UAW President Walter Reuther and AFL–CIO President George Meany could not come to agreement on a wide range of national public policy issues or on reforms regarding AFL–CIO governance. [19]
AFL-CIO President Liz Shuler (Photo: AFL-CIO) North Carolina is and will, for the foreseeable future, remain a so-called “right-to-work” state in which laws make it extremely tough build ...
DLAs, however, will have to pay a per capita tax to the AFL–CIO, and the AFL–CIO will then distribute this money to the appropriate state, area and local central labor bodies. Unity Partnership dues are slightly higher than the combined national, state, area and local dues fully affiliated AFL–CIO unions pay, on average.
PROVIDENCE – After two decades on the front lines of organized labor in Rhode Island, Patrick Crowley won election Monday night as the new president of the 80,000-member strong state AFL-CIO for ...
Angela Ferritto, an Erie native, is president of the PA AFL-CIO. This article originally appeared on Erie Times-News: PA AFL-CIO's Angela Ferritto describes labor wins, Pa. economic growth Show ...
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