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AFL-CIO Affiliated Unions and Other Labor Acronyms
AAA | American Arbitration Association |
| AAAA | Associated Actors and Artists of America |
| AAFUM | Asian American Federation of Union Members |
| ACTWU | Amalgamated Clothing and Textile Workers Union |
| AEA | Actor’s Equity Association |
| AFA | Association of Flight Attendants |
| AFGE | American Federation of Government Employees |
| AFGM | American Federation of Grain Millers (Merged 1/99 with BCTGM) |
| AFGWU | American Federation of Glass Workers Union |
| AFL-CIO | American Federation of Labor-Congress of Industrial Organizations |
| AFM | American Federation of Musicians |
| AFSA | American Federation of School Administrators |
| AFSCME | American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees |
| AFT | American Federation of Teachers |
| AFTRA | American Federation of Television and Radio Artists |
| AGMA | American Guild of Musical Artists |
| AGVA | American Guild of Variety Artists |
| ALC | Airport Labor Coalition |
| ALPA | Airline Pilots Association |
| ALRB | Agricultural Labor Relations Board |
| APALA | Asian Pacific American Labor Alliance |
| APRI | A. Philip Randolph Institute |
| APWU | American Postal Workers Union |
| ARA | American Radio Association |
| ATDA | American Train Dispatchers Association |
| ATU | Amalgamated Transit Union |
| AWIU | International Association of Heat and Frost Insulators and Asbestos Workers |
| BA | Business Agent |
| BAC | International Union of Bricklayers and Allied Craftsmen |
| BCTGM | International Union of Bakery Confectionery, Tobacco Worker, and Grain Millers |
| BLE | Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers |
| BMWE | Brotherhood of Maintenance of Way Employees |
| BRS | Brotherhood of Railroad Signalmen |
| BTC | Building Trades Council |
| CBTU | Coalition of Black Trade Unionists |
| CFT | California Federation of Teachers |
| CLC | Canadian Labour Congress |
| CLC | Central Labor Council |
| CLF | California Federation of Labor |
| CLUW | Coalition of Labor Union Women |
| CNA | California Nurses Association |
| COPE | Committee on Political Education |
| CSEA | California State Employees Association or California School Employees Association |
| CWA | Communications Workers of America |
| DFR | Duty of Fair Representation |
| EEOC | Equal Employment Opportunities Commission |
| ERISA | Employee Retirement Income Security Act |
| ESC | Engineers and Scientists of California |
| FEIA | Flight Engineers’ International Association |
| FMCS | Federal Mediation and Conciliation Service |
| FORUM | Federation of Retired Union Members |
| FPA | Federation of Professional Athletes |
| GCIU | Graphic Communications International Union |
| GMP | Glass, Molders, Pottery, Plastics and Allied Workers International Union |
| HERE | Hotel Employees and Restaurant Employees Union |
| IAFF | International Association of Firefighters |
| IAM | International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers |
| IATSE | International Association of Theatrical and Stage Employees and Moving Picture Technicians, Artists and Allied Crafts of the United States and Canada |
| IBB | International Brotherhood of Boilermakers, Iron Ship Builders, Blacksmith, Forgers and Helpers |
| IBEW | International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers |
| IBFO | International Brotherhood of Painters and Allied Trades of the United States and Canada |
| IBT | International Brotherhood of Teamsters |
| ICWU | International Chemical Workers Union |
| IFFA | International Flight Attendants Association |
| IFPTE | International Federation of Professional and Technical Engineers |
| ILA | International Longshoremen’s Association AFL-CIO |
| ILGWU | International Ladies Garment Workers Union |
| ILNPW | International Union of Allied Novelty and Production Workers |
| ILO | International Labor Organization (United Nations) |
| ILWU | International Longshoremen's and Warehousemen's Union |
| ITU | International Typographical Union |
| IUE | International Union of Electronic, Electrical, Salaried, Machine and Furniture Workers |
| IUEC | International Union of Elevator Constructors |
| IUJH | International Union of Journeyman Horseshoer of United States & Canada |
| IUOE | International Union of Operating Engineers |
| IUPA | International Union of Police Associations |
| IWW | Industrial Workers of the World |
| Iron Workers | International Association of Bridge, Structural and Ornamental Iron Workers |
| LCLAA | Labor Coalition for Latin American Advancement |
| LDC | Laundry and Dry Cleaning International Union, AFL-CIO |
| LIUNA | Laborers International Union of North America |
| LMRA | Labor Management Relations Act (Wagner/Taft-Hartley or NLRA) |
| LMRDA | Labor Management Reporting and Disclosure Act (Landrum-Griffin Act) |
| MEBA | Marine Engineers’ Beneficial Association |
| NALC | National Association of Letter Carriers |
| NATCA | Air Traffic Controllers Association, National |
| NHHSE | National Health & Human Services Employees Union (Affiliated with SEIU) |
| NLRA | National Labor Relations Act |
| NLRB | National Labor Relations Board |
| OCAW | Oil, Chemical and Atomic Workers |
| OP&CMIA | Operative Plasterers’ and Cement Masons’ International Association of the United States and Canada |
| OPEIU | Office of Professional Employees International Union |
| OSHA | Occupational Safety and Health Act |
| PACE | Paperworkers, Oil, Chemical and Atomic Workers International Union |
| PAW | Pride at Work |
| PDSE | International Plate Printers, Die Stampers and Engravers Union of North America |
| PERB | Public Employee Relations Board |
| RLA | Railway Labor Act |
| RWAW | United Union of Roofers, Waterproofers and Allied Workers |
| RWDSU | Retail, Wholesale and Department Store Union |
| SEIU | Service Employees International Union |
| SIU | Seafarers International Union |
| SMWIA | Sheet Metal Workers International Association |
| SUP | Sailors Union of the Pacific |
| TCU | Transportation Communications International Union |
| TNG | The Newspaper Guild |
| TWU | Transport Workers Union of America |
| UA | United Association of Sprinkler Fitters, Plumbing & Pipefitter Association of Journeymen and Apprentices |
| UAW | United Automobile, Aerospace & Agricultural Implement Workers of America International Union |
| UBC | United Brotherhood of Carpenters & Joiners of America |
| UE | Union of Electrical Workers |
| UFCW | United Food and Commercial Workers International Union |
| UFW | United Farmworkers of America |
| UMWA | United Mine Workers of America |
| UNITE | Union of Needletrades, Industrial and Textile Employees |
| UPIU | United Paperworkers International Union (Merged, see PACE) |
| USWA | United Steelworkers of America |
| UTU | United Transportation Union |
| UTWA | United Textile Workers of America |
| UWUA | Utility Workers Union of America |
| WGAE | Writers Guild of America |
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