December 5 - The AFL and CIO Merge
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December 5 - The AFL and CIO Merge

2022-12-05

On this day in Labor History the year was 1955. That was the day the American Federation of Labor and the Congress of Industrial Organizations merged to become the AFL-CIO.  The American Federation of Labor was a confederation of unions can that trace its history all the way back to just after the Civil War, in 1866.  

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