.jpg)
AFL-CIO
Sign in to saveThe American Federation of Labor and Congress of Industrial Organizations (AFL-CIO) is a national trade union center that is the largest federation of unions in the United States. It is made up of 61 national and international unions, together representing nearly 15 million active and retired workers. The AFL-CIO engages in substantial political spending and activism, typically in support of progressive and pro-labor policies.
Key facts
- Organization.name
- AFL-CIO
- Organization.full_name
- American Federation of Labor andCongress of Industrial Organizations
- Organization.logo
- AFL-CIO-seal.svgclass=skin-invert
- Organization.logo_size
- 225px
- Organization.type
- Trade union center
- Organization.headquarters
- Washington, DC, US
- Organization.location_country
- United States
- Organization.membership
- 12,471,480
- Organization.membership_year
- 2022
- Organization.leader_title
- President
- Organization.leader_name
- Liz Shuler
- Organization.leader_title2
- Secretary-treasurer
- Organization.leader_name2
- Fred Redmond
- Organization.secessions
- Change to Win Federation
- Organization.affiliations
- International Trade Union Confederation
via Wikipedia infobox
Article
27 sectionsContents
- Membership
- Political activities
- Governance
- Annual meetings
- State and local bodies
- Constitutional departments
- Constituency groups
- Allied organizations
- Programs
- International policy
- History
- Civil rights
- Police violence
- Triumph and disaster: the politics of the 1960s and 70s
- New Unity Partnership
- ILWU disaffiliation
- Norfolk Southern proxy fight
- Leadership
- Presidents
- Secretary-treasurers
- Executive vice presidents
- See also
- References
- Further reading
- Constitution
- Archives
- External links
The American Federation of Labor and Congress of Industrial Organizations (AFL-CIO) is a national trade union center that is the largest federation of unions in the United States. It is made up of 61 national and international unions, together representing nearly 15 million active and retired workers. The AFL-CIO engages in substantial political spending and activism, typically in support of progressive and pro-labor policies.
The AFL-CIO was formed in 1955 when the American Federation of Labor and the Congress of Industrial Organizations merged after a long estrangement. Union membership in the US peaked in 1979, when the AFL-CIO's affiliated unions had nearly twenty million members. From 1955 until 2005, the AFL-CIO's member unions represented nearly all unionized workers in the United States. Several large unions split away from AFL-CIO and formed the rival Change to Win Federation in 2005, although a number of those unions have since re-affiliated, and many locals of Change to Win are either part of or work with their local central labor councils. The largest unions currently in the AFL-CIO are the Service Employees International Union (SEIU), with 2 million members, American Federation of Teachers (AFT) with approximately 1.7 million members, American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees (AFSCME), with approximately 1.4 million members, and United Food and Commercial Workers with 1.2 million members.