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American Federation of Labor and Congress of
Industrial Organizations
AFL-CIO Superseding the Federation of
Organized Trades and Labor Unions of the USA
and Canada, and was initially a union of
skilled craftworkers. The CIO was known in
1935 as the Committee on Industrial
Organization (it adopted its present title
1937 after expulsion from the AFL for its
opposition to the AFL policy of including
only skilled workers). A merger reunited
them 1955, bringing most unions into the
national federation, currently representing
about 20% of the workforce in North America.