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The Union Label and Service Trades Department, AFL–CIO was founded on April 12, 1909, to promote the products and services produced in America by trade union members—especially those products and services identified by a union label, shop card, store card and/or service button. The department is a constitutionally mandated department of the ...
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.
A labour council, trades council or industrial council is an association of labour unions or union branches in a given area. Most commonly, they represent unions in a given geographical area, whether at the district, city, region, or provincial or state level. They may also be based on a particular industry rather than geographical area, as for ...
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.
This category is only for images of logos and similar marks related to trade unions of the United States.It does not include other images related to trade unions, such as images of people, buildings, strikes, rallies, picket signs, song sheets, buttons or shirts.
The Trades and Labor Congress of Canada was a Canada-wide central federation of trade unions from 1886 to 1956. It was founded at the initiative of the Toronto Trades and Labour Council and the Knights of Labor. It was the third attempt at a national labour federation to be formed in Canada: it succeeded the Canadian Labour Union which existed ...
The National Association of United Trades for the Protection of Labour was an early trade union federation in the United Kingdom, established in 1845. [1] No attempt had been made to co-ordinate the activities of trade unions in various industries across the country since the failure of the Grand National Consolidated Trades Union in 1834. [2]
The FTUC helped rebuild the shattered trade union movement in Europe and Japan. It sent food packages to destitute labor activists and union leaders. In addition to relief activities, it financed a trade school in Palermo. [6] The FTUC helped fund the Force Ouvrière in France in opposition to the Communist-controlled labor confederation in 1948.