View source for American Federation of Labor and Congress of Industrial Organizations

The [[American Federation of Labor and Congress of Industrial Organizations]] is a major labour federation in the United States. It was founded in 1955 with the merger of the [[American Federation of Labor|AFL]] and the [[Congress of Industrial Organizations|CIO]].<ref>[http://www.aflcio.org/aboutus/ About Us], AFL-CIO, accessed 18 March 2010.</ref>

==People==
===Presidents===
*[[George Meany]]
*[[Lane Kirkland]]
*[[Thomas R. Donahue]]
*[[John J. Sweeney]]
*[[Richard Trumka]]

==Related Organisations==
*[[American Institute for Free Labor Development]]
*[[Asian American Free Labor Institute]]
*[[Free Trade Union Institute]]
*[[African-American Labor Center]]
*[[American Center for International Labor Solidarity]]

==External Resources==
*Fred Hirsch, [http://archive.org/stream/AnAnalysisOfOurAfl-cioRoleInLatinAmericaOrUnderTheCoversWithThe/Hirsh3#page/n1/mode/2up An Analysis of Our AFL-CIO Role in Latin America or Under the Covers with the CIA], San Jose, California, 1974, archived at the Internet Archive
*[http://www.heritage.org/research/reports/1996/10/bg1094nbsp-from-meany-to-sweeney-labors From Meany to Sweeney: Labor's Leftward Tilt], [[Heritage Foundation]], 4 October 1996.
*Kim Scipes, [http://www.monthlyreview.org/0505scipes.htm Labor Imperialism Redux?: The AFL-CIO's Foreign Policy Since 1995], Monthly Review, May 2005.
*Tim Shorrock, [http://www.thenation.com/article/labors-cold-war# Labor's Cold War], ''The Nation'', 19 May 2003.

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[[Category:Trade and Labour Unions]]