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  • n  a federation of North American labor unions that merged with the Congress of Industrial Organizations in 1955
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    Looking Back 1913: A strike of all workers at General Electric Co. in Schenectady was called off after they withdrew their demand for nine hours of pay for an eight-hour day on the advice of the American Federation of Labor. Beneath the state agreement with Niagara Mohawk Power Corp. for a two-year rate freeze there lurked the still serious matter of Nine Mile Point 2, the $6.3 billion nuclear ...
    June 19, 2013 - Albany Times Union

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