CIO

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CIO is an acronym for Chief Information Officer. This person has the responsibility of overseeing all computer operations within an organization. Technology within the enterprise, technical decisions, IT budgets, analyzing and reworking existing business processes are the responsibility of the CIO.

CIO also stands for the Congress of Industrial Organizations a coalition of industrial unions that split away from the AFL in the late 1930s under John L. Lewis. The CIO and AFL fought bitterly in the late 1930s; both grew very rapidly during World War II, and both supported the New Deal Coalition of Franklin D. Roosevelt and Harry S. Truman. Many Communists held positions of power in the CIO until they were purged in 1947-48. Walter Reuther of the autoworkers UAW was the most influential leader. Reuther helped purge the Communists and promoted an anti-Communist foreign policy as well as liberalism on economic issues. The CIO reunited with the AFL in 1955 to form the AFL-CIO, which remains the largest coalition of labor unions.

see Congress of Industrial Organizations

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