Editing AFL-CIO (section)

=== Annual meetings ===
From 1951 to 1996, the Executive Council held its winter meeting in the resort town of [[Bal Harbour, Florida]].<ref name=Galvin1996>{{cite news|last=Galvin|first=Kevin|title=AFL-CIO saying goodbye to fun in sun as it fights decline|newspaper=Houston Chronicle|date=19 February 1996|page=5|quote=The Bal Harbour meeting dates to 1951, before the American Federation of Labor merged with the Congress of Industrial Organizations.}}</ref> The meeting at the Bal Harbour Sheraton has been the object of frequent criticism, including over a labor dispute at the hotel itself.<ref name=Stieghorst1991>{{cite news|last=Stieghorst|first=Tom|title=AFL-CIO May Cancel Annual Trip Sheraton Bal Harbor Focus Of Labor Dispute|url=https://www.sun-sentinel.com/news/fl-xpm-1991-12-21-9102230054-story.html|access-date=2 August 2012|newspaper=Sun-Sentinel|date=21 December 1991|archive-date=September 18, 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200918161453/https://www.sun-sentinel.com/news/fl-xpm-1991-12-21-9102230054-story.html|url-status=live}}</ref><ref name="Sturr 2009">{{cite news|last=Sturr|first=Chris|title=The Staley Lockout (Thad Williamson)|url=http://dollarsandsense.org/blog/2009/09/the-staley-lockout-thad-williamson.html|access-date=2 August 2012|newspaper=Dollars & Sense|date=24 September 2009|quote=In of the book's most memorable scenes, Staley workers made a pilgrimage to AFL–CIO executive council meetings in Bal Harbour, Florida in February 1995, confronting stunned national leaders inside the luxurious Sheraton Hotel.|archive-date=May 23, 2012|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120523225937/http://dollarsandsense.org/blog/2009/09/the-staley-lockout-thad-williamson.html|url-status=live}}</ref><ref name=Carmichael1986>{{cite news|last=Carmichael|first=Dan|title=Maverick strikers refused meeting|newspaper=United Press International|date=19 February 1986|quote=Renegade strikers at a Minnesota Hormel plant were refused entrance to an AFL–CIO Executive Council meeting Wednesday and they accused President Lane Kirkland and other labor leaders of being 'out of touch' with workers.}}</ref>

Citing image concerns, the council changed the meeting site to [[Los Angeles]].<ref name=PressRelease1997>{{cite web|title=Media Advisory for AFL–CIO Executive Council Meeting February 17–20|url=https://aflcio.org/Press-Room/Press-Releases/AFL-CIO-Executive-Council-Meeting|work=Press Releases|publisher=AFL-CIO|access-date=2 August 2012|quote=Top leaders of the AFL–CIO will meet for nearly a week at the Biltmore Hotel in Los Angeles beginning Sunday, February 16th – the first time in more than 30 years that the winter executive council meeting has not been held in the resort town of Bal Harbour, Florida.|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130730103609/http://www.aflcio.org/Press-Room/Press-Releases/AFL-CIO-Executive-Council-Meeting|archive-date=30 July 2013|url-status=dead|df=dmy-all}}</ref><ref name=Hershey1996>{{cite news|last=Hershey|first=William|title=Union Meeting Heads for L.A.: After 70 Years of Flocking to Florida, AFL–CIO Will Go Where There's Work, Organizing to Be Done|newspaper=Akron Beacon Journal|date=23 February 1996|page=B8}}</ref> However, the meeting was moved back to Bal Harbour several years later.<ref name=Strope2004>{{cite news|last=Strope|first=Leigh|title=AFL-CIO President Says Bush AWOL on Jobs|newspaper=Associated Press Online|date=9 March 2004|quote=The decision to return to Bal Harbor, where room rates for the meeting start at $225 a night, was made a few years ago to avoid losing deposit money, Sweeney said.}}</ref>   The 2012 meeting was held in [[Orlando, Florida]].<ref name=Daraio2012>{{cite news|last=Daraio|first=Robert|title=The AFL–CIO Executive Council and the IATSE General Executive Board Endorses Obama for Second Term|url=http://broadcastunionnews.blogspot.com/2012/03/iatse-general-executive-board-endorses.html|access-date=2 August 2012|newspaper=Broadcast Union News|date=14 March 2012|archive-date=April 2, 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150402162421/http://broadcastunionnews.blogspot.com/2012/03/iatse-general-executive-board-endorses.html|url-status=live}}</ref>