Afl-cio (Noun)
Meaning
The largest federation of North American labor unions; formed in 1955.
Classification
Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects.
Examples
- The AFL-CIO, an organization made up of fifty-five unions and their approximately thirteen million members, had immense political clout.
- Historians typically regarded the 1981 firing of air traffic controllers as the first demonstration of organized labor's loss of clout under President Reagan and also noted a large membership drop-off from the AFL-CIO unions following the debacle.
- For some two decades following 1985, as financial journalists for conservative periodicals made haste to argue the inapplicability of liberal agendas of policies - more vigorously associated with large associations including those backed by labor federation group, AFL-CIO, particularly unions traditionally categorized into both larger coal miners along other relevant industrials also followed manufacturing classifications' strikes after contract denouncements.
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