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The AFL-CIO Merger.
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The article reflects on the consolidation of the American Federation of Labor and the Congress of Industrial Organizations into a single alliance of unions on December 5, 1955. Such merger ceased 20 years of division and rivalry in the American labor movement. The achievement of unity has been widely praised, because the existence of 2 competing union federations had been decried by both friends and critics of organized labor ever since the division originated. It was never clear, however, why the separation in the ranks of labor was viewed as undesirable.
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