The Los Angeles County Federation of Labor (LACFL) is the umbrella organization for an alliance of hundreds of affiliated local labor unions and labor organizations in Los Angeles County, California. It was established in 1894 and operated under the name Los Angeles County Central Labor Council (LACCLC) for many years. Due to a split between the AFL and CIO on the national level the the National CIO chartered the Greater Los Angeles CIO Council in May 1937, which maintained a separate existence from the LACCLC for two decades. By early 1959 the Greater Los Angeles CIO Council, and six AFL affiliated Central Labor Councils — Los Angeles County, Long Beach, Pomona, San Gabriel Valley, San Pedro-Wilmington, and Santa Monica — merged to create the Los Angeles County Federation of Labor, AFL-CIO (LACFL). The Los Angeles County Federation of Labor Collection consists primarily of administrative records that document the activities of the Greater Los Angeles CIO Council and the Los Angeles County Central Labor Council (LACCLC) prior to their merger, and then the post-merger Los Angeles County Federation of Labor (LACFL) from 1860 through 2018. Materials in the collection cover the general operations of all of these organizations including their main governing bodies, as well as all of their departments and committees.

The Los Angeles County Federation of Labor (LACFL) is the umbrella organization for an alliance of hundreds of affiliated local labor unions and labor organizations in Los Angeles County, California. It was established in 1894. The LACFL is the local-level central body which is affiliated with the state-level, California Labor Federation (previously California State Federation of Labor) as well as the national-level, American Federation of Labor-Congress of Industrial Organizations (AFL-CIO). Their mission is to support organized labor and collective bargaining in order to improve the lives of workers. They also work to ensure that progressive political leaders who support workers' rights are elected to office.

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