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Website. uwua.net. The Utility Workers Union of America ( UWUA) is a labor union in the United States. It has a membership of 50,000 and is affiliated with the AFL–CIO. The union has over 50,000 members working in the electric, gas, steam, water, and nuclear industries across the United States. The UWUA represents utility workers in municipal ...
At the Labor Archives of Washington, University of Washington Libraries Special Collections. United Brotherhood of Carpenters and Joiners of America, Local 131 (Seattle, Washington) Records, 1888–1960. 9 cubic feet. United Brotherhood of Carpenters and Joiners of America, Local 1289 (Seattle, Washington) Records, 1911–1958. 64 cubic feet.
The Communications Workers of America ( CWA) is the largest communications and media labor union in the United States, representing about 700,000 members in both the private and public sectors (also in Canada and Puerto Rico ). [1] [2] The union has 27 locals in Canada via CWA-SCA Canada (French: Syndicat des communications d'Amérique ...
The International Typographical Union (ITU) was a North American trade union for the printing trade for newspapers and other media. It was founded on May 3, 1852, in the United States as the National Typographical Union, and changed its name to the International Typographical Union at its Albany, New York, convention in 1869 after it began organizing members in Canada.
The economy of the Washington metropolitan area includes the economy of Washington, D.C., and its suburbs, including parts of Maryland, all of Northern Virginia, and Jefferson County, West Virginia. In 2022, the DC metro area had the country's fifth-highest gross metropolitan product, at $541 billion. [1]
Pride at Work members distribute literature and educate the public about union organizing campaigns affecting LGBTQ workers at the Capital Pride street festival in Washington, D.C., on June 14, 2009. Pride at Work exists to build tolerance and support for LGBTQ+ members in the workplace and in labor unions.
Website. alpa .org. The Air Line Pilots Association, International ( ALPA) is the largest pilot union in the world, [1] representing more than 77,000 pilots [1] from 43 US and Canadian airlines. ALPA was founded on 27 July 1931 [2] [3] and is a member of the AFL-CIO and the Canadian Labour Congress. Known internationally as US-ALPA, ALPA is ...
In the District of Columbia, the slave trade was legal from its creation until it was outlawed as part of the Compromise of 1850. That restrictions on slavery in the District were probably coming was a major factor in the retrocession of the Virginia part of the District back to Virginia in 1847. Thus the large slave-trading businesses in ...