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Metal Trades Department of the AFL-CIO is a trade department of the AFL–CIO. It was founded June 15, 1908. Presidents 1908: James O'Connell 1935: John P. Frey 1951: James A. Brownlow 1962: B. A. Gritta 1969: Maywood Boggs 1971: Paul Burnsky 1994: John Meese 2002: Ronald Ault 2016: James Hart 2024: Edward Jones
The AFL-CIO was a major component of the New Deal Coalition that dominated politics into the mid-1960s. [11] Although it has lost membership, finances, and political clout since 1970, it remains a major player on the liberal side of national politics, with a great deal of activity in lobbying, grassroots organizing, coordinating with other liberal organizations, fund-raising, and recruiting ...
The Saint Kitts and Nevis Trades and Labour Union (TLU) is a general union in St Kitts and Nevis. The union was founded in 1940, following the legalization of trade unions in St Kitts and Nevis. It was initially named the St Kitts - Nevis - Anguilla Trades and Labour Union, and focused on organizing sugar workers. Its founding president was ...
UNITE HERE is a labor union in the United States and Canada with roughly 300,000 active members. [1] The union's members work predominantly in the hotel, food service, laundry, warehouse, and casino gaming industries.
Fink, Gary M. ed. Labor unions (Greenwood, 1977) pp. 26–28. online; Stuart B. Kaufman. Challenge & Change: The History of the Tobacco Workers International Union. University of Illinois Press. 1987. ISBN 0-252-01421-9. Stuart B. Kaufman. A Vision of Unity: The History of the Bakery & Confectionery Workers International (Labor) Union ...
A resolution against trade unionism was actually proposed, and labor union delegates had to work hard to secure adjournment in order to avoid passage of the motion. The trade unionists decided to call another conference for November 15, 1881 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, where a larger number of trade union members could participate. [9]
The union continues to expand into different companies today. In December 2013 the union's attempt to represent workers at an Amazon.com fulfillment center in Middletown, Delaware, failed. [18] In 2020, the union began a strike at Bath Iron Works, a major shipyard in Bath, Maine, over disagreements regarding a new labor contract with the ...
The Coalition of Black Trade Unionists (CBTU) is a nonprofit organization of African American trade union members affiliated with the AFL–CIO.More than 50 different international and national trade unions are represented in CBTU and there are 50 chapters in the United States and one in Ontario, Canada.