AFL-CIO history

1964 Civil Rights Act bans institutional forms of racial discrimination

1965 AFL-CIO forms A. Philip Randolph Institute; César Chávez forms AFL-CIO United Farm Workers Organizing Committee

In 1983, the union membership rate was around 20 percent, while current data indicates that it is closer to 10%. The downward trend is occurring for a variety of different reasons.

Since its inception in 1997, the program has celebrated more than 1,130 election victories and a nearly 80% win rate.

In 2003, the AFL–CIO began an intense internal debate over the future of the labor movement in the United States with the creation of the New Unity Partnership (NUP), a loose coalition of some of the AFL–CIO's largest unions.

Inactive Unions (as of 1/2004)

In 2005, the NUP dissolved and the Change to Win Federation (CtW) formed, threatening to secede from the AFL–CIO if its demands for major reorganization were not met.

Goodyear Tire & Rubber Co. (2007), a United States Supreme Court decision that the statute of limitations for presenting an equal-pay lawsuit begins on the date that the employer makes the initial discriminatory wage decision, not at the date of the most recent paycheck.

17) and enforce resolution of disagreements over jurisdiction or organizing). As of June 2008, the AFL–CIO had 56 member unions.

The Laborers' International Union of North America said on August 13, 2010, that it would also leave Change to Win and rejoin the AFL–CIO in October 2010.

In August 2013, the International Longshore and Warehouse Union (ILWU) disaffiliated from the AFL–CIO. The ILWU said that members of other AFL–CIO unions were crossing its picket lines, and the AFL–CIO had done nothing to stop it.

The AFL-CIO is the largest organization of labor in the United States and represents about 12.5 million workers in 2014.