AFL-CIO – The AFL-CIO union movement represents 10.5 million members, including 2 million members in Working America, its new community affiliate. We are teachers and truck drivers, musicians and miners, firefighters and farm workers, bakers and bottlers, engineers and editors, pilots and public employees, doctors and nurses, painters and laborers—and more. Since its founding, the AFL-CIO and its affiliate unions have been the single most effective force in America for enabling working people to build better lives and futures for our families.

1. Which type of interest group?

a. Public interest

b. Economic interest

c. Professional group

d. Ideological group

e. Single issue group

2. Where does it fall on the political spectrum? left side or right side

3. Explain why it falls there.