The American Federation of Labor and Congress of Industrial Organizations (AFL-CIO) is a federation of 56 national and international labor unions.
The
AFL-CIO union movement represents 10.5 million members, including 2
million members in Working America, its new community affiliate. Their members are
teachers and truck drivers, musicians and miners, firefighters and farm
workers, bakers and bottlers, engineers and editors, pilots and public
employees, doctors and nurses, painters and laborers-and more.