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Below is a list of unions affiliated with the AFL-CIO.Since the founding of the AFL in 1886, the AFL-CIO and its predecessor bodies have been the dominant labor federation (at least in terms of the number of member workers, if not influence) in the United States.
The AFL-CIO is a federation of international labor unions. As a voluntary federation, the AFL-CIO has little authority over the affairs of its member unions except in extremely limited cases (such as the ability to expel a member union for corruption [8] and enforce resolution of disagreements over jurisdiction or organizing).
In 1941, under pressure from the AFL, the union ejected three local unions in New York City and Philadelphia (including its prominent early member, the New York City Teachers Union, AFT Local 5) for being communist-dominated. The charter revocations represented nearly a third of the union's national membership.
The SEIU was part of an ugly split from the AFL-CIO in 2005, when it joined the International Brotherhood of Teamsters, the United Food and Commercial Workers and others in forming a rival federation.
The Service Employees International Union said it is re-joining the AFL-CIO. With the addition of SEIU, membership will expand to 15 million workers.
The CIO had been founded to promote industrial unionism, and the new federation created a department to bring together industrial unions. Its initial leadership was similar to that of the CIO, and most of its affiliated membership came from former CIO unions, although 35 AFL unions affiliated, compared to 31 CIO unions. [1]
A legal challenge to the OPM’s resignation offer was filed this week by four organizations: the American Federation of Government Employees AFL-CIO; the American Federation of Government ...
In December 2001, McElroy was elected to the executive council of the AFL-CIO. He served on various AFL-CIO committees, including its political, education, strategic approaches, women workers and state and local strategies committees. After his election as AFT president, McElroy served on the AFL-CIO's Executive Committee as well. [2] In 2004 ...