Die American Federation of Labor and Congress of Industrial Organizations (AFL-CIO) ist der mitgliederstärkste Gewerkschafts-Dachverband der USA und Kanadas.
Er hat 60 nationale und internationale Mitgliedsorganisationen, die zusammen mehr als 12,5 Millionen (Stand: 2023)[1] Organisierte vertreten.
Die AFL-CIO ist Mitglied des Internationalen Gewerkschaftsbundes (IGB). In der Mitgliederliste des IGB wird die Mitgliedschaft mit 8,4 Millionen angegeben (Stand: 2019).[2]
Geschichte
1935 hatte sich die CIO (Congress of Industrial Organizations) von der AFL (American Federation of Labor) abgespalten. 1955 vereinigten sich beide wieder zur AFL-CIO.
Bis 2005 arbeitete er praktisch als zentraler Dachverband. Interne Meinungsverschiedenheiten führten dazu, dass im Juli/August 2005 zahlreiche Gewerkschaften (darunter mit der Dienstleistungsgewerkschaft SEIU die größte Einzelgewerkschaft) austraten und sich unter einem neuen Dachverband „Change to Win“ formierten.
Gewerkschaften
In der AFL-CIO sind 2023 folgende 60 Gewerkschaften vertreten:[4]
- Actors’ Equity Association (AEA)
- Air Line Pilots Association (ALPA)
- Amalgamated Transit Union (ATU)
- American Federation of Government Employees (AFGE)
- American Federation of Musicians of the United States and Canada (AFM)
- American Federation of School Administrators (AFSA)
- American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees (AFSCME)
- American Federation of Teachers (AFT)
- American Guild of Musical Artists (AGMA)
- American Postal Workers Union (APWU)
- American Radio Association (ARA)
- American Train Dispatchers Association (ATDA)
- Associated Actors and Artistes of America (4As)
- American Guild of Variety Artists (AGVA)
- The Guild of Italian American Actors (GIAA)
- Bakery, Confectionery, Tobacco Workers and Grain Millers International Union (BCTGM)
- Brotherhood of Railroad Signalmen (BRS)
- California School Employees Association (CSEA)
- Communications Workers of America (CWA)
- Association of Flight Attendants (AFA-CWA)
- Industrial Union of Electronic Workers (IUE-CWA)
- National Association of Broadcast Employees and Technicians (NABET-CWA)
- Printing, Publishing and Media Workers, CWA (PPMW-CWA)
- The Newspaper Guild (TNG-CWA)
- Farm Labor Organizing Committee (FLOC)
- International Alliance of Theatrical Stage Employes, Moving Picture Technicians, Artists and Allied Crafts of the United States, Its Territories and Canada (IATSE)
- International Association of Bridge, Structural, Ornamental and Reinforcing Iron Workers (Ironworkers)
- International Association of Fire Fighters (IAFF)
- International Association of Heat and Frost Insulators and Allied Workers (AWIU)
- International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers (IAM)
- National Federation of Federal Employees (NFFE-IAM)
- Transportation Communications International Union/IAM (TCU/IAM)
- International Association of Sheet Metal, Air, Rail and Transportation Workers (SMART)
- International Brotherhood of Boilermakers, Iron Ship Builders, Blacksmiths, Forgers and Helpers (IBB)
- International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers (IBEW)
- International Federation of Professional and Technical Engineers (IFPTE)
- International Organization of Masters, Mates & Pilots (MM&P)
- International Plate Printers, Die Stampers and Engravers Union of North America
- International Union of Allied Novelty and Production Workers (Novelty and Production Workers)
- International Union of Bricklayers and Allied Craftworkers (BAC)
- International Union of Elevator Constructors (IUEC)
- International Union of Operating Engineers (IUOE)
- International Union of Painters and Allied Trades of the United States and Canada (IUPAT)
- International Union of Police Associations (IUPA)
- Laborers’ International Union of North America (LiUNA)
- National Postal Mail Handlers Union (NPMHU)
- Major League Baseball Players Association (MLBPA)
- Major League Soccer Players Association (MLSPA)
- Marine Engineers’ Beneficial Association (MEBA)
- Professional Aviation Safety Specialists (PASS)
- National Air Traffic Controllers Association (NATCA)
- National Association of Letter Carriers (NALC)
- National Nurses United (NNU)
- National Taxi Workers Alliance (NTWA)
- National Women’s Soccer League Players Association (NWSLPA)
- NFL Players Association (NFLPA)
- Office and Professional Employees International Union (OPEIU)
- Operative Plasterers’ and Cement Masons’ International Association of the United States and Canada (OPCMIA)
- Screen Actors Guild-American Federation of Television and Radio Artists (SAG-AFTRA)
- Seafarers International Union of North America (SIU)
- Transport Workers Union of America (TWU)
- UNITEHERE (UNITEHERE)
- United Association of Journeymen and Apprentices of the Plumbing and Pipe Fitting Industry of the United States and Canada (UA)
- United Automobile, Aerospace & Agricultural Implement Workers of America International Union (UAW)
- United Food and Commercial Workers International Union (UFCW)
- Retail, Wholesale and Department Store Union (RWDSU-UFCW)
- United Mine Workers of America (UMWA)
- United Steel, Paper and Forestry, Rubber, Manufacturing, Energy, Allied Industrial & Service Workers International Union (USW)
- Glass, Molders, Pottery, Plastics and Allied Workers International Union (GMP-USW)
- United Union of Roofers, Waterproofers and Allied Workers (Roofers and Waterproofers)[5]
- Utility Workers Union of America (UWUA)[6]
- Women’s National Basketball Players’ Association (WNBPA)
- Writers Guild of America, East Inc. (WGAE)
