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CIO

CIO

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A federation of industrial unions in the United States that organized workers
  • noun
  • /siː aɪ oʊ/
  • Jargon
translation icon : Congreso de Organizaciones Industriales
  • And you can find the CIO Council, of course, on the new HUIT website.
  • AFL-CIO
  • a CIO union
  • CIO industrial union

Examples

  • The university itself has taken steps to ensure the distinction in the agreement each CIO must sign.

    Academic text (1996)
  • The workers in the CIO did a lot of things that were illegal.

    Blog text (3)
  • WAP had acquired CIO status soon after it was organized.

    Academic text (1996)
  • One of three full-time elected officials of the county CIO, Young emerged as the principal leader of the organization.

    Academic text (1997)
  • The AFL-CIO has worked with the Scouts for these 80 years because we share many values.

    Academic text (1998)
  • Analyze the impact of the formation of the CIO and the tensions between it and the AFL.

    Blog text (12)
  • African Americans were used as strikebreakers in the CIO union drives of the 1930s.

    Academic text (1996)
  • Perhaps nowhere in northern industry was the black civil rights dimension of the early CIO more evident than in Chicago's stockyards.

    Academic text (2000)
  • It was formed when the American Federation of Labor merged with the more militant CIO.

  • The CIO played a crucial role in advocating for workers' rights during the industrial revolution.

Synonyms

A group of trade unions in North America formed in 1935 that joined the American Federation of Labor in 1955

is the abbreviated, shortened form of that federation's full name

Surface Forms

CIO singular
CIOs plural

Etymology

CIO is an abbreviation of Congress of Industrial Organizations, a group formed in the United States to bring many industrial unions together. So CIO refers to that federation of unions that organized factory and other industrial workers.