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 AFL and the CIO.

People

Presidents

• George Meany
• Lane Kirkland
• Thomas R. Donahue
• John J. Sweeney
• Richard Trumka

Related Organisations

• American Institute for Free Labor Development

External Resources

• Fred Hirsch, 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
• From Meany to Sweeney: Labor's Leftward Tilt, Heritage Foundation, 4 October 1996.
• Kim Scipes, Labor Imperialism Redux?: The AFL-CIO's Foreign Policy Since 1995, Monthly Review, May 2005.
• Tim Shorrock, Labor's Cold War, The Nation, 19 May 2003.