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Samuel Gompers, Chair, Executive Committee. The Federation of Organized Trades and Labor Unions of the United States and Canada ( FOTLU) was a federation of labor unions created on November 15, 1881, at Turner Hall in Pittsburgh. [1] It changed its name to the American Federation of Labor (AFL) on December 8, 1886.
The Building and Construction Trades Department, commonly known as North America's Building Trades Unions ( NABTU ), is a trade department of the American Federation of Labor and Congress of Industrial Organizations (AFL–CIO) with 14 affiliated labor unions in the building trades. It was originally founded by the American Federation of Labor ...
The US Bureau of Labor Statistics most recent survey indicates that union membership in the US has risen to 12.4% of all workers, from 12.1% in 2007. For a short period, private sector union membership rebounded, increasing from 7.5% in 2007 to 7.6% in 2008. [1] However, that trend has since reversed.
Below is a list of unions affiliated with the AFL–CIO. Since the founding of the AFL in 1886, the AFL–CIO and its predecessor bodies have been the dominant labor federation (at least in terms of the number of member workers, if not influence) in the United States. As of 2014, the labor federation had approximately 12.7 million members.
Banking in theUnited States. Credit unions in the United States served 100 million members, comprising 43.7% of the economically active population, in 2014. [1] [2] U.S. credit unions are not-for-profit, cooperative, tax-exempt organizations. [3] The clients of the credit unions become partners of the financial institution and their presence ...
This is a list of credit unions in the United States.. A credit union is a member-owned financial cooperative, democratically controlled by its members, and operated for the purpose of promoting thrift, providing credit at competitive rates, and providing other financial services to its members.
California Federation of Teachers. Campaign Workers Guild. Center for Union Facts. Citizens' Alliance. Coal Employment Project. Coalition of Black Trade Unionists. Coalition of Graduate Employee Unions. Coalition of Labor Union Women. Conference for Progressive Labor Action.
United Association. The United Association of Journeymen and Apprentices of the Plumbing and Pipe Fitting Industry of the United States and Canada, commonly known as the United Association ( UA ), is a labor union which represents workers in the plumbing and pipefitting industries in the United States and Canada.