The CIO without the CIA.(AFL-CIO's international labor activities) From: The American Prospect | Date: July 2, 2001| Author: RODBERG, SIMON | COPYRIGHT 2001 The American Prospect, Inc. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group.Copyright information

Inside the AFL-CIO's Solidarity Center

FOR FOUR DECADES, THE AFI-CIO'S INTERNATIONAL presence was notable less for its promotion of labor rights than for its Cold War ferocity. At global conventions, for instance, the labor federation's protocol required AFL-CIO representatives to stand up and leave the room whenever members of insufficiently anti-Communist unions like Italy's CGIL entered. The labor federation's Latin American arm, the American Institute for Free Labor ...

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