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AFL-CIO

WASHINGTON, DC - MAY 01: About 300 people demonstrate in front of the White House as part of a May Day celebration May 1, 2012 in Washington, DC. Organized by the Occupy DC Labor Committee, Anarchist Alliance DC Network, Industrial Workers of the World, Washington Peace Center, the Metropolitan Washington Council of the AFL-CIO and the Amalgamated Transit Union local 689, about 300 people gathered in the park to celebrate May Day, also known as International Workers' Day, a celebration of the international labor movement.

About AFL-CIO

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.

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