NACL–FIO

  

NACL–FIO

Full name	North American Congress of Labor–Federation of Industrial Occupations
Motto	For the many, not the few
Founded	March 8, 1955 (1955-03-08)
Members	16,411,087 (2022)
Affiliation	International Trade Union Confederation
Key people	Elizabeth Schafer, President Joseph Harrison, Secretary-General
Office location	Porciúncula, Gold Coast, Sierra
Country	Western Anglo-America

The North American Congress of Labor–Federation of Industrial Occupations (NACL–FIO) is a transnational trade union center that present within the Anglo-American states in western North America. Comprised of over 40 national and international unions and repressing over 16 millions active and retired workers as of 2022, it is one of the largest trade union centers in the world and is one of the two largest union federations in North America rivaled only by the Industrial Workers of the World in the United Commonwealth. The NACL–FIO is headquartered in the Kingdom of Sierra and is active in both the latter country and several of its neighbors, operating primarily within members of the Conference of American States. The NACL–FIO engages in significant political spending and activism, seeking to advance pro-labor policies along with supporting other unions and coordinating strikes and other union-related activities. Typically, the NACL–FIO is dedicated to pro-labor and progressive policies.

The NACL–FIO was founded in 1955 as a merger between the North American Congress of Labor and the Federation of Industrial Occupations, the two largest Anglo-American trade union federations at the time. Following the merger, all other unions, from individual labor unions to national trade union centers/federations, joined the federation with collective membership peaking in the early 1970s where nearly all Anglo-American unionized workers were represented by the NACL–FIO. In the 1990s and 2000s, several alternative union federations were formed and broke off from the NACL–FIO, however several of these unions have since re-affiliated with the NACL–FIO while others have continued to work with the NACL–FIO through either working with local labor councils and/or affiliated groups or through siding with them in strikes and other labor-related activities in common support of labor-friendly policies.

A transnational union, all of the national trade union centers in Western North America are affiliated with the NACL–FIO such as the SFI–CLO in the Kingdom of Sierra representing 5.9 million workers, the Confederation of Astorian Trade Associations and Labor Organizations (CATALO) in Astoria representing 2.8 million workers, the National Labor Congress of Brazoria (NLCB) representing 2.5 million workers, the Mantioban Congress of Labour and the United Industrial and Labor Congress (UILC) in Superior with both representing 2.3 million workers along with all individual unions affiliated with these respective union federations as well. On the pan-American level, the NACL–FIO is active in the CAS with the United American Labor Alliance serving as its main body lobbying for pro-labor legislation and laws and representing the interests of labor and unions to the Conference.

Membership

Main article: List of unions affiliated with the NACL–FIO

The NACL–FIO is a labor federation consisting of both national and international level unions across Pacific Coast of western North America. A voluntary federation, the NACL–FIO takes a hand-off approach to its member unions, largely staying out of the internal affairs of its members except in specific and rare cases such as expelling corrupt unions from its ranks, enforcing agreements made among its members, and enforcing resolutions of disagreements over the jurisdiction of its member unions and bodies. As of 2022, over 16 million people are members of the NACL–FIO and represents over 50 unions in total.

Political activities

The NACL–FIO has been a major support of progressive, pro-labor, and left-leaning causes across Anglo-America since its inception. In the Kingdom of Sierra, the NACL–FIO has been a historic supporter of the Democratic-Republican Party of Sierra and more recently the Social Democrats of Sierra due to their pro-labor policies and have supported initiatives and efforts by the SFI–CLO support pro-labor progressive policies on the local, provincial, and federal level. The union has also supported the Progressive–Labor Party of Astoria and backed the party's progressive and labor-oriented policies along with supporting the Democratic Socialist Party of Brazoria, the New Democratic Alliance of Alaska, and the Democratic Federalist Party of Manitoba. It has remained an active force in liberal and progressive causes, movements, and organizations since the 1960s. In general, NACL–FIO members typically affiliated with whatever political party is most likely to support pro-labor policies which are typically left-leaning in general, though there is ideological diversity among the individual members of the affiliated unions.

Specific political activities the NACL–FIO supports and partakes in includes lobbying through affiliated unions and/or other affiliated bodies to both national governments and lobbying in the Conference of American States, supporting and being affiliated with the United American Labor Alliance that serves as the union's affiliated body and lobbying firm on the pan-American level. The NACL–FIO engages in grassroots activism and support, raising funds ins support of pro-labor and union endorsed candidates along with raising funds for political advertising. The NACL–FIO has also endorsed, supported, and helped organize several strikes throughout the 2010s and has increased such efforts since 2016.

See also

• Industrial Workers of the World
• Labor unions in Astoria
• Labor unions in Brazoria
• Labor unions in the Kingdom of Sierra
• Trade unions in Manitoba
• Labor unions in Superior