Examples of CIO in the following topics:
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A New Direction for Unions
- In 1938, the AFL expelled the CIO and its members.
- The CIO quickly earned the reputation of a more radical and more inclusive labor organization than the AFL.
- While the CIO was not free of racist (and sexist!)
- Already in 1937, the CIO membership was higher than the AFL membership, reaching 3.7 million.
- Both the AFL and the CIO supported Roosevelt in 1940 and 1944.
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Toward Permanent Unions
- Lewis , the CIO , or Congress of Industrial Organizations, split off and competed aggressively for membership.
- After the Communists in the CIO were purged in 1946-1948, a the AFL and CIO merged in 1955 to form the AFL-CIO.
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Labor in Wartime
- The war mobilization changed the relationship of the Congress of Industrial Organizations (CIO) with both employers and the national government.
- Both the CIO and the larger American Federation of Labor (AFL) grew rapidly in the war years.
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Resistance to Business Reform
- While organized labor largely lauded NLRA, the American Federation of Labor accused NLRB of favoring practices employed by the Congress of Industrial Organizations (CIO).
- CIO, created in 1935 as the Committee of Industrial Organizations by unions belonging to AFL, gathered industrial workers and it eventually broke away from AFL in 1938.
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Legislative Achievements of the Second New Deal
- While the NLRB initially favored plant-wide units, which tacitly favored the CIO's industrial unionism, it retreated to a compromise position several years later under pressure from Congress that allowed craft unions to seek separate representation of smaller groups of workers at the same time that another union was seeking a wall-to-wall unit.
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Roosevelt's Second Term
- Roosevelt initially had massive support from the rapidly growing labor unions, but they split into bitterly feuding AFL and CIO factions.
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The Ku Klux Klan
- During the 1930s and 1940s, Klan leaders urged members to disrupt the Congress of Industrial Organizations (CIO), which advocated industrial unions and was open to African-American members.
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The Rise of Unions
- Organized unions and their umbrella labor federations such as the AFL-CIO and citywide federations have competed, evolved, merged, and split against a backdrop of changing values and priorities, and periodic federal government intervention.