[Eva]

The CIO was actually the CIOA before joining with the AFL and becoming the AFL CIO. My grandfather was elected to be the first and last president of the Electrical workers and machinists union at RCA.

[oh8eleven]

The CIO was actually the CIOA before joining with the AFL and becoming the AFL CIO. My grandfather was elected ...
In 1880, my gg-grandfather lived in the same tenement in the Lower East Side of Manhattan with Samuel Gompers, founder of the AFL.
My gg-grandfather was a barrel maker, and Gompers was a cigar maker.
Don't know if they knew each other but I wouldn't be surprised if they shared a brew, a stoggie and talked politics.