Fred Frost, president of the South Florida American Federation of Labor and
Congress of Industrial Organizations, has demanded Timoney be held accountable for the actions of his officers.
He won a House seat in 1946 thanks to Republican money, Republican newspapers, his public speaking abilities, and his and Chotiner's smear of incumbent Jerry Voorhis as a puppet of the
Congress of Industrial Organizations.
In 1938, he delivered the invocation at the founding convention of the
Congress of Industrial Organizations, a forerunner of the AFL-CIO.
A militant, interracial industrial union was born with the
Congress of Industrial Organizations (CIO), and meat packing was thoroughly unionized by the 1940s.
It's the deepest schism since the American Federation of Labor expelled the
Congress of Industrial Organizations in 1937 - a rift that was not healed until 1955 - but the result could be a re-energized labor movement.
These activities gained focus in the
Congress of Industrial Organizations (i.e., the Industrial Union Councils) and local branches of the Communist party, the Socialist party, the American Labor party, and later the Democratic party.
The UFCW is one of the four largest unions in the American Federation of Labor and
Congress of Industrial Organizations (AFL-CIO), which recently held its executive council meeting in Las Vegas.
Some forty years later Dobbs was the national secretory of the Socialist Workers Party and wrote down an account of his experiences working in the coal yards and becoming involved in unionist movement organizing the drive to establish Teamsters Local 574 and the rise of the
Congress of Industrial Organizations (CIO) as an effective nation-wide instrument to better working conditions for men and women like himself.
Lewis, president of the
Congress of Industrial Organizations, to declare, with only slight poetic license, "President Roosevelt wants you to join the union." Lyndon Johnson took enormous political risks to end the stain of official racism and to lead the broad citizenry to appreciate the national disgrace of extensive poverty.
Robert Blakely, CSC co-chair and director of Canadian affairs for the building and construction trades department of the American Federation of Labor and
Congress of Industrial Organizations (AFL-CIO), said the Ironworker Aboriginal Career Awareness Project is really needed because most skilled trades are filled by the post-Second World War generation who will soon retire.
Thea Lee, Assistant Director of Public Policy for the AFL-CIO (American Federation of Labor and
Congress of Industrial Organizations), will replace David Smith as the representative from the AFL-CIO.