Example sentences for: afl-cio

How can you use “afl-cio” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • Earlier this month, the AFL-CIO announced that it was partnering with the Massachusetts-based company iBelong to produce a Web service called Workingfamilies.com.

  • The two Times each report that John Sweeney, AFL-CIO president, announced yesterday that the unions affiliated with his organization would lend the Teamsters $10 million a week--to be used for strikers' benefits--for "many, many weeks."

  • Although the union is meeting in Los Angeles, the Los Angeles Times front has only a postage-stamp-sized reefer to its Page B1 AFL-CIO story, choosing instead to follow up on its Saturday lead, the Mexican flood/mud aftermath, a story nobody else fronts.

  • The tactical savvy that Sweeney brings might help stanch the AFL-CIO's bleeding (it's been losing more than 200,000 members a year).

  • Carey has also fought to restore labor's national credibility: He spearheaded the campaign to oust longtime AFL-CIO chief Lane Kirkland and replace him with the dynamic John Sweeney.


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