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AFL CIO Union Merger Clarifies Structure and Power
The AFL CIO merger raises questions about leadership roles and authority. Meany becomes president and Schnitzler secretary treasurer amid staff integration and a new Washington building. Union dynamics include powerful teams like Teamsters and CIO legacies, with ongoing debates on craft versus industrial organization and political alignments.
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Dent
William Schnitzler
Labor
Congress of Industrie
AFI
CIO
AFL
Meany
Schnitzler
APL
Walter
Reuther
United Auto Workers Union
Afl-Cio
Washington
Whites House
Teamsters
Steelworkers
Auto Workers
Dave Beck
David J. McDonald
Reather
John L. Lewis
United Mine Workers
Lewis
Afl-Cto
Brotherhood of
Brotherhood
Labor Department
APL Cio
The
American Federation
Steel Workers
Jone
Electrical Workers
AFL Textile Union
United Textile Workers
UTW
Textile Workers Union of America
TWU
AFL Electrical Union
International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers
IBEW
International Union’ of Electrical Workers
IUWE
Cincinnati
Joseph Micholas Osborn
Savannah Jane Williams
Carpenters
Stral
Osborn Phumbers
Lebanon
Junion
Nicholas
Carpeniiers