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American Federation of Labor

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Noun1.American Federation of Labor - a federation of North American labor unions that merged with the Congress of Industrial Organizations in 1955
federation - an organization formed by merging several groups or parties


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labor movement throughout the 20th century was not the industrial unionism that emerged in the 1930s with the Congress of Industrial Organizations or CIO, but rather the occupationally based unionism historically associated with the American Federation of Labor or AFL.
There was an important story at the board meeting: Dubinsky had decided that his union ought to secede from the nascent Congress of Industrial Organizations (CIO) to return to the American Federation of Labor.
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