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AFL-CIO

BATON ROUGE, LA - MAY 14: Louisiana AFL-CIO President Louis Reine attends Laissez Louisiana Film Rouler at the Celtic Studios on May 14, 2013 in Baton Rouge, Louisiana.

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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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