Examples of use of Congress of Industrial Organizations
1. The American Federation of Labor–Congress of Industrial Organizations, or AFL–CIO, the biggest federation of U.S. unions, last month freed its 55 member unions to make their own recommendations in the presidential race.
2. The convention comes only a month after a schism in the American labor movement where three unions formally split from the umbrella American Federation of Labor–Congress of Industrial Organizations.
3. "They understand how important it is to fight back when jobs, safety, standards and our values are at risk." The American Federation of Labor–Congress of Industrial Organizations, or AFL–CIO, the biggest federation of U.S. unions, last month freed its 55 member unions to make their own recommendations in the presidential race.
4. Service Employees‘ International is the largest and fastest–growing union in the US, with more than 1.8 million members, while the Teamsters call themselves "the world‘s most powerful union". Glum celebration The schism – perhaps ironically – comes on the eve of a convention meant to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the merger of the American Federation of Labor and the Congress of Industrial Organizations.
5. The share of the nation‘s workforce represented by unions has dwindled from 35 percent in 1'55, when the American Federation of Labor (AFL) and the Congress of Industrial Organizations (CIO) merged, to 12.5 percent, in a pattern similar to that in most industrialized countries.