History
The AFL-CIO established ACILS in 1997. The Solidarity Center was created through the consolidation of four labor institutes: the American Institute for Free Labor Development, the Asian-American Free Labor Institute, the African-American Labor Center, and the Free Trade Union Institute. The pre-existing institutes were merged by John Sweeney when he was President of the AFL–CIO.
The AFL-CIO had worked internationally for many decades. With some funding from the OSS and CIA, it had worked to stop Communist movements in Western Europe after World War II. In Guyana, labor unions and the CIA supported a general strike that stopped the People's Progressive Party (PPP) government from creating another PPP/state-controlled labor union.
Read more about this topic: American Center For International Labor Solidarity
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