As of 2005, the 100th anniversary of its founding, the IWW had around 5, 000 members, compared to 13 million members in the AFL-CIO.

The AFL-CIO, with cooperation from its member unions, organized a large permitted rally and march from Seattle Center to downtown.

In 1955, the AFL merged with its longtime rival, the Congress of Industrial Organizations, to form the AFL-CIO, a federation which remains in place to this day.

In 2005, SEIU was a founding member of the Change to Win Coalition, which furthered the reformist agenda, criticizing the AFL-CIO for focusing its attention on electoral politics, instead of taking sufficient action to encourage organizing in the face of decreasing union membership.

On the eve of the 2005 AFL-CIO convention, SEIU, along with its Change to Win partners, the Teamsters union, and the United Food and Commercial Workers Union, announced that it was disaffiliating from the AFL-CIO after the 50-year-old labor federation declined to pass the Coalition's suggested reforms.

But at the AFL-CIO convention, each union was allotted delegates proportional to the size of its membership.

The Teamsters demanded a 50 percent of dues to member unions, as well as streamlining the AFL-CIO by moving many of its functions out of the headquarters to the state and local field operations, eliminating other functions, and reducing the size of the executive committee.

The Change to Win Coalition released a set of proposals for reforming the AFL-CIO that largely reflected its member union's proposals.

Sweeney primarily focused on stabilizing the AFL-CIO and its state, area and local bodies financially, structurally and politically.

The family returned to Washington D. C., in 1957 and Peterson joined the Industrial Union Department of the AFL-CIO, becoming its first woman lobbyist.

The NBPC was founded on November 1, 1965, and its parent organization is the American Federation of Government Employees, AFL-CIO.

Rathke is the president and co-founder of the SEIU Southern Conference ; a member of the International Executive Board of SEIU ; and Chief Organizer of the Hotel and Restaurant Organizing Committee ( HOTROC ) a multi-union organizing project for hospitality workers in New Orleans sponsored by the AFL-CIO and its president, John Sweeney.

He was the most visible supporter within the AFL of demands to clean house by ousting corrupt union leaders ; the AFL-CIO ultimately adopted many of his demands when it established codes of conduct for its affiliates in 1957.

Wurf was a frequent dissenter to the policies of the AFL-CIO and its president George Meany.

In 1988, an AFL-CIO organised teleconference of trade unionists recognised the potential of the nascent organising model, gave it its name, and resolved to spread it throughout the trade-union movement: this was an element in the model's popularisation.

The AFL-CIO did not reverse its position on immigration restrictions until 1999.

For those who disagreed with El Centro de la Raza ’ s far-left politics and savored historical irony, it didn ’ t get better than this: an organization that staunchly supported workers ’ rights, the AFL-CIO ( OPEIU Local 8 ), accused El Centro of violating the labor rights of its own staff.

Van Os served as general counsel for the Texas AFL-CIO from 1983 to 1989 and was named Civil Libertarian of the Year, Central Texas ACLU, 1990 and was in-house District Counsel for the Communications Workers of America in Austin from 1981 through 1984 ; he continued serving as District Counsel for CWA after co-founding a private law firm in 1984, and remains CWA's District Counsel for its five-state District 6.

He was the most visible supporter within the AFL of demands to clean house by ousting corrupt union leaders ; the AFL-CIO ultimately adopted many of his demands when it established codes of conduct for its affiliates in 1957.

The Carpenters disaffiliated from the AFL-CIO in 2001, citing complaints about the National Federation's failure to follow up on its program to organize the unorganized.

This distinction is purely technical as the 4As splits its votes in AFL-CIO elections based on the wishes of each member union.

From 2004 to 2008 it resisted attempts by the International Longshore and Warehouse Union to organize workers at its processing plant, and according to the AFL-CIO has been found by the National Labor Relations Board ( NLRB ) to have violated a number of labor laws in its campaign against the union ..

The same day, SEIU, the Teamsters, UFCW and UNITE HERE announced that their delegates would boycott the AFL-CIO convention.

José Piñera entered the cabinet in December 1978 when Chile faced two serious external threats: a possible war with Argentina over the disputed Beagle Islands and a trade boycott by the American AFL-CIO labor confederation.

At the August AFL-CIO executive council meeting, Donahue was elected by unanimous vote as the new AFL-CIO president.

At the August 2004 AFL-CIO executive council meeting, Sweeney attempted to implement some of NUP's criticisms by announcing the formation of a task force to investigate organizing the Wal-Mart grocery and discount department store chain.

In an AFL-CIO executive council meeting on August 12, Reuther's motion for a strong endorsement of the march was supported only by A. Philip Randolph of the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters, whose was the titular leader of the march.

In August and September 1987, leaders of the AFL-CIO and the Teamsters secretly worked out a tentative reaffiliation agreement — exactly 30 years after the Teamsters were first expelled for corruption.

Joseph Lane Kirkland ( March 12, 1922 – August 14, 1999 ) was a US labor union leader who served as President of the AFL-CIO for over sixteen years.

Secretary-Treasurer Donahue was elected by the AFL-CIO Executive Council as his interim replacement at the regularly scheduled Executive Council meeting in early August.

On August 1, 1995, Easterling was appointed by the AFL-CIO Executive Council to the position vacated by Donahue — making her the first woman to serve as an AFL-CIO officer ( albeit an appointed officer ).

The Laborers ' International Union of North America said it would also leave Change to Win and rejoin the AFL-CIO on August 13, 2010.

AFL-CIO President John Sweeney was widely expected to retire at the trade union center's August 2009 convention, and Laborer's president Terence O ' Sullivan and AFL-CIO Secretary-Treasurer Richard Trumka had been discussed as his successors.

However, LIUNA officials said on August 13, 2010, that the union would leave Change to Win and rejoin the AFL-CIO in October 2010.

In August 2005, the AFL-CIO executive council approved the creation of ' solidarity charters.

In 1987 the AFL-CIO membership grew to 14 million members when the Teamsters Union was restored to the association.

The Meany Campus has housed the George Meany Memorial Archives, which holds all of the AFL-CIO records going back to the founding of the AFL in 1881, since 1987.

In October 1987, Presser led the Teamsters back in to the AFL-CIO.

On March 30, 1981, at approximately 2: 25 pm local time, Hinckley shot a. 22 caliber Röhm RG-14 revolver six times at Reagan as he left the Hilton Hotel in Washington, D. C., after addressing an AFL-CIO conference.

The UAW disaffiliated from the AFL-CIO on July 1, 1968, after Reuther and AFL-CIO President George Meany could not come to agreement on a wide range of policy issues or reforms to AFL-CIO governance.

Curseen and Morris were members of the American Postal Workers Union, AFL-CIO who died after exposure to the anthrax in the incident.

In 2005, after leaving the AFL-CIO, the UFCW joined six other unions — the Teamsters, SEIU, UNITE-HERE, Laborers, United Farm Workers and Carpenters — in creating a new labor federation, the Change to Win Federation.

Both Sweeney and Change to Win reached out to one another after the break-up of the AFL-CIO, although the relationship was difficult.

In 1968, Reuther led the UAW out of the AFL-CIO, and the UAW did not re-affiliate until after Reuther's death in a 1970 plane crash.

In November, 1979, he resigned from the AFL-CIO after a 57 year career in organized labor.

He continued serving with the AFL-CIO after the CIO reunited with the AFL in 1955.

Chavez-Thompson was elected executive vice-president of the AFL-CIO after John Sweeney ran for the presidency of the labor federation in 1995.

In early October 1995, Sweeney began working to persuade delegates to delay a vote on the issue until after the AFL-CIO presidential election on October 24.

At the AFL-CIO Convention in Chicago, Sweeney's delegates submitted a motion on October 23 to postpone debate on the new position until after the presidential balloting.

Even after it left the federation, however, the Carpenters formed a temporary alliance, the New Unity Partnership in 2003 and the Change to Win Coalition with other unions — including SEIU, UNITE HERE, and the Laborers — to force the AFL-CIO to consider basic structural changes in order to facilitate organizing.

* Richard I. Kilroy – VP under Kroll, and took over after Kroll's death in 1981 as international president of TCU ( 1981 – 1991 ), and was also a vice president of the AFL-CIO ; d. February 2007 of heart failure

* United Auto Workers President Douglas Fraser announced that UAW officials had voted unanimously to rejoin the AFL-CIO after a 13 year absence.

In 1968, Walter Reuther had led the UAW to separate from the larger labor union after disagreements with AFL-CIO President George Meany.

In 2002, after an extended campaign by the California Labor Federation, AFL-CIO and the Work and Family Coalition led by the Labor Project for Working Families, California was the first state to pass a law requiring the Paid Family Leave program ; however, in a 2007 survey of California adults, only 28. 1 % were aware of the program.