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When did AFL-CIO started?
U.S. federation of labour unions formed in 1955 by the merger of the AFL and the CIO. The AFL was founded in 1886 as a loose federation of craft unions under the leadership ofhttp://www.answers.com/topic/samuel-gompers. Member unions retained autonomy and received protection of their workers and jurisdiction over a certain industrial territory. The CIO was founded in 1935 as the Committee for Industrial Organization by a splinter group of AFL unions whose leaders believed in organizing skilled and unskilled workers across entire industries; at its first convention in 1938, it adopted its current name and elected http://www.answers.com/topic/john-l-lewis president. For two decades the AFL and CIO were bitter rivals for the leadership of the U.S. labour movement, but they formed an alliance in the increasingly conservative, antilabour climate of the postwar era, and in 1955 they merged under the leadership of http://www.answers.com/topic/george-meany. http://www.answers.com/topic/afl-cio
What is the AF of L?
The AF of L is the American federation of labor.
The cio was formed in 1935 by?
john l Lewis
What did John L. Lewis organize?
Congress of Industrial Organizations (CIO)
What has the author L L Sharkey written?
L. L. Sharkey has written: 'The trade unions' -- subject(s): Labor unions
What has the author Robert Merger written?
Robert Merger has written: 'L' accouchement sans douleur'
What organization did John L Lewis establish?
Congress of Industrial Organizations (CIO)
Who were the Knights of Labor?
They were a Labor Organization akin to the Modern A.F.L but were founded earlier. the Knights of Labor were organized by a man named Terence Powderly the odd name is why I remember them. they were pretty much out of existence by the time of the Gay Nineties ( l890"s) and the rise of A.F.L. unions. = largely headed up by Samuel Gompers. The CIO did not exist prior to l934 and was the Congress of Industrial Organizations. Most, not all CIO-based unions have the word United in the title: United mine workers, for example, United Auto Workers, United Federation of Teachers, for example, the word United tended to indicate a CIO as opposed to AFL union. The two Labor organizations merged around I seem to recall (from history books in school) about l947 and some unions are noted- AFL-CIO. but there were and are formal divisions between the two organizations, as described above. the Knights of Labor is long-since extinct- since about maybe l892, superseded by the AF of L. it helped They also promoted the social and cultural uplift of the workingman, rejected socialism and radicalism. They also wanted an eight hour day of working. It took place in the 1800's
What has the author L Lind-af-Hageby written?
L. Lind-af-Hageby has written: 'August Strindberg' 'The shambles of science' -- subject(s): Vivisection
How many members were in the American Federation of Labor?
Membership in the AF of L peaked around 1920, whenceupon nearly 4 million members* had joined. This number dwindled with the 1920s and the party split in 1937. *The AFL was an organization of unions; thus no one was truly a member per se, but they were members of unions that were in the Federation. it made a bunch of different unions, so it must be countless
Who is the current president of the AFL-CIO?
As of July 2014, Richard L. Trumka serves as President of the AFL-CIO, a position he has held since 2009. Elizabeth Shuler is the Secretary-Treasurer.
Why is Samuel gompers important?
He promoted "thorough" organization and collective bargaining to secure shorter hours and higher wages, the first essential steps, he believed, to emancipating labor. He also encouraged the AFL (American Federation of Labor) to take political action to "elect their friends" and "defeat their enemies." His belief led to the development of procedures for collective bargaining and contracts between labor and management which are still in use today. In practice, AF of L unions were important in industrial cities, where they formed a central labor office to coordinate the actions of different AF of L unions. Issues of wages and hours were the usual causes of strikes, but many strikes were assertions of jurisdiction, so that the plumbers, for example, used strikes to ensure that all major construction projects in the city used union plumbers. In this goal they were ideally supported by all the other construction unions in the AF of L fold.
