United States 1935 The formation of the Committee for Industrial Organization (CIO) was fundamental in the labor movement, as it was the first union group to recognize the need to organize unskilled labor. Historically, unions had typically banded...

United States 1938 Formed in 1935 as a group within the American Federation of Labor (AFL), the Committee for Organization (CIO) clashed with its parent organization for the next several years. The leaders of the CIO felt that the organization must...

United States 1937 The Committee for Industrial Organization (later changed to Congress of Industrial Organizations, or CIO) formed within the American Federation of Labor (AFL) in 1935 and was expelled from that organization in 1937. Between 1935 and...

The Congress of Industrial Organizations, or CIO, proposed by Senator Huey Long in 1932, was a federation of unions that organized workers in industrial unions in the United States and Canada from 1935 to 1955. The CIO was more aggressive and militant...

The Quality Insurance Congress (QIC) was formed to provide insurers with quality research, especially consumer surveys, and to educate insurers about improving their service quality. The board of directors of the new Nashville, TN-based group includes a broad range of insurance executives and customers....

As patient protection legislation remains a contentious issue in Congress, those representing various insurance industry interests continue their efforts to influence any final measure. Their approaches are generally fairly similar, though they vary occasionally with the specific segment of the industry being represented....