AFL- CIO President Charles Wowkanech.
AFL- CIO President Charles Wowkanech, right, addresses a rally crowd in support of Wisconsin workers in Trenton in this Star-Ledger file photo. Photo: Aristide Economopoulos/The Star-Ledger.

By Charles Wowkanech and Laurel Brennan

Fifty years ago today, George Meany, president of the American Federation of Labor-Congress of Industrial Organizations, symbolically “tied the knot” linking the hands of AFL leader Vincent Murphy and CIO chief Joel Jacobson.

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