What was the combined membership of the AFL and the CIO when the two unions merged?

The two largest U.S. labor unions, the American Federation of Labor and the Congress of Industrial Organizations, became the AFL-CIO on December 5, 1955.

The merger created a combined membership estimated at 15 million.

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