The Labor Merger

Abstract

When the AFL-CIO merger agreement was finally signed, on February 9 at Miami Beach, it had some of the impact of a surprise. And yet nothing of importance has stood in the way of the merger for at least two years past. Twenty years ago, when the CIO first broke off from the AFL, the two labor bodies fought bitterly. But both federations have changed during their twenty years of rivalry. Now at the end, their differences are minor.

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