On the Anniversary of the AFL and CIO Merger, Listen to George Meany’s First Speech to the AFL-CIO Convention

By webadmin@aflcio.org (Jackie Tortora)

Dec. 5 marks the anniversary of the merger of the AFL and CIO in 1955. As we look towards the future, we remember that we can learn a great deal about ourselves as a movement of working people coming together from the past.

Thanks to the University of Maryland, we can easily access George Meany’s speech at the first joint AFL-CIO Convention in New York City.

Source: AFL-CIO