Departure of The United Auto Workers Union From The AFL-CIO in 1968
Despite their cooperation in the AFL-CIO merger, Meany and Walter Reuther had a contentious relationship for many years.
In 1963, Meany and Reuther disagreed about the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom. In an AFL-CIO executive council meeting on August 12, Reuther's motion for a strong endorsement of the march was supported only by A. Philip Randolph of the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters, whose was the titular leader of the march. The AFL-CIO endorsed a civil-rights law and allowed individual unions to endorse the march. However, when George Meany heard A. Philip Randolph's speech, he was visibly moved. Thereafter, he supported the creation of the A. Philip Randolph Institute, to strengthen labor-unions among African Americans and to strengthen ties with the African American community.
Reuther resigned from the AFL-CIO executive council in February 1967. In 1968, Reuther led the UAW out of the AFL-CIO, and the UAW did not re-affiliate until after Reuther's death in a 1970 plane crash.
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