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Jerry Wurf (right), president of AFSCME, and William Wynn, president of UFCW (United Food and Commercial Workers International Union), listen to a speech at the November 1979 AFL-CIO Convention in Washington, D.C. President Wynn helped form the UFCW in 1979 by crafting a merger between the Retail Clerks International and the Amalgamated Meat Cutters and Butchers unions.