AFL and CIO labor unions merge 60 years ago this hour (Dec 5 1955)


Video: 'Labor Merger. AFL and CIO Join Forces 1955 Newsreel'

(Monday, December 5, 1955, 10:00 a.m. EST) — The American Federation of Labor and the Congress of Industrial Organizations merged today in New York to form the AFL-CIO under its first president, George Meany