AFL-CIO Labor Trade Unions Merge Workers 1955 Newspaper

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AFL-CIO Labor Trade Unions Merge Workers 1955 Newspaper is a complete, genuine historic newspaper with the following title, date and description: THE DETROIT NEWS, Michigan, February 10, 1955. * AFL-CIO Labor Unions merge This 52 page newspaper has a five column headline on the front page: * Top Union Jobs Periled with subhead: "Merger Stirs Union Drive" Other news of the day throughout with a very nice front page headline concerning the Ford automobile factory and in a Detroit newspaper. Some binding holes along the spine, otherwise in good condition. source: wikipedia: American Federation of Labor and Congress of Industrial Organizations, commonly AFL-CIO, is a national trade union center, the largest federation of unions in the United States, made up of 54 national and international unions (including Canadian), together representing more than 10 million workers. It was formed in 1955 when the AFL and the CIO merged after a long estrangement. From 1955 until 2005, the AFL-CIO's member unions represented nearly all unionized workers in the United States. The largest union in the AFL-CIO is the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees (AFSCME), with more than a million members, since 2005 when several large unions split away from AFL-CIO. View additional information concerning collecting rare newspapers: Please read more