 Before 1955, the American Federation of Labor and the Congress of Industrial Organizations were separate, competing organizations. In 1955 the two organizations chose to merge to strengthen the labor movement and help eliminate competition between unions and workers. The Special Collections and University Archives at the University of Maryland – which now houses the Meany Archives -- has posted a “behind the scenes” look at the logistics involved in working out the details of the merger among members of the AFL-CIO Unity Subcommittee and the earliest attempts at unity with the No-Raiding Agreement, including George Meany’s notes on the constitution draft, handwritten minutes from the Unity Subcommittee about early plans for merging departmental staff, and correspondence between Meany (left) and Walter Reuther (right) about the progress of the merger.
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