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The CIO without the CIA.(AFL-CIO's international labor activities)
American Prospect, The, July, 2001 by RODBERG, SIMON
Tags: AFL-CIO, CIA, federation, institute, U.S.
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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 Development (AIFLD), was especially notorious for its CIA connections and for siding with repressive ...
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