- a federation of affiliated industrial labor unions, founded 1935 within the American Federation of Labor but independent of it 1938–55. Abbreviation: C.I.O., CIO
- (in the US) a federation of industrial unions formed in 1935. It united with the AFL in 1955 to form the AFL-CIO
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